In the good ol' days, one could merely have an ifconfig eth0:{1,2,3}
etc. to alias as many addresses as one desired. Then we switched to
iproute2 and that broke. According to "man ip" we need a way to add a
LABEL=something to the ifconfig files so we can call ip with a label
argument. At least that seems the only way to do it. At the very least,
the ifconfig.eth0:1 idea won't work because ifup uses ip link show to
verify the existence of an interface, and eth0:1 will never be listed as
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