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Nimbostratus

Jun 07, 2017

3rd interface on BIG-IQ VE

Hi, on my BIG-IQ VE 5.1 I have 3 VMXNET3 network adapters. CLI command ifconfig shows all interfaces (eth0,1,2) but if I connect over the Web GUI I can see just interfaces 1.1 and 1.2 Is it possible ...

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Jun 07, 2017

Greetings,

Did you add the third nic on your hypervisor? I added one using ESX and it showed up both in TMSH and the UI:

 tmsh list net interface
net interface 1.1 {
    if-index 48
    mac-address 00:50:56:92:5f:50
    media-fixed 10000T-FD
    media-max 10000T-FD
    mtu 9198
}
net interface 1.2 {
    if-index 64
    mac-address 00:50:56:92:5e:44
    media-fixed 10000T-FD
    media-max 10000T-FD
    mtu 9198
}
net interface mgmt {
    if-index 32
    mac-address 00:50:56:92:6f:e2
    media-active 100TX-FD
}


Add nic on ESX. Reboot.


 tmsh list net interface
net interface 1.1 {
    if-index 48
    mac-address 00:50:56:92:5f:50
    media-fixed 10000T-FD
    media-max 10000T-FD
    mtu 9198
}
net interface 1.2 {
    if-index 64
    mac-address 00:50:56:92:5e:44
    media-fixed 10000T-FD
    media-max 10000T-FD
    mtu 9198
}
net interface 1.3 {
    if-index 80
    mac-address 00:50:56:92:4d:6b
    media-fixed 10000T-FD
    media-max 10000T-FD
    mtu 9198
}
net interface mgmt {
    if-index 32
    mac-address 00:50:56:92:6f:e2
    media-active 100TX-FD
}

Janus-Paul
Nimbostratus
Jul 11, 2017
Thank you for helping with this. Just the static route has to be added for the interace. It works now:).

Reg.

Janus