[soupbowl]

I have played with multiple routers even commercial ones that do not support aliases or anything but static addresses. You are not wrong but what you suggest is far from the norm.

[bpye]

I was curious to see what the solutions are for some of these - Ruckus for example has Ansible modules [0] but they just SSH in and change the config.

[0] - https://github.com/commscope-ruckus/RUCKUS_ICX_Ansible