On 3 April 2013 14:12, David Comerford <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi list, > > Can anyone tell me what "router.extra.public.nics" is used for? > > I recently noticed my routers had the default extra 2 NICs and I can't see > any need for them. > I've also noticed in VMware one of the extra public NICs gets the correct > VLAN tag for public traffic but is added to the management vSwitch, which > isn't tagged and won't work even if the NIC was used by the router. >
I can't say for sure but there's not much in the code (as comments or otherwise) to explain the need for the extra nics. If you're not using vmware as hypervisor this setting doesn't do anything at all. From what I can tell - during router startup additional interfaces are added to the vmware routers but the interface remains down.
