# 2 pysical ethernet devices

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/2-pysical-ethernet-devices/20869>\
**Category:** SUSE Virtualization\
**Created:** [August 6, 2021, 1:36pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/2-pysical-ethernet-devices/20869 "2021-08-06T13:36:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Xenon777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/f19dbf/32.png) [@Xenon777](https://forums.suse.com/u/Xenon777)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 1:36pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/2-pysical-ethernet-devices/20869/1 "2021-08-06T13:36:32Z")

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Hi

With mgmt\_interface i definite the management Network Device. (f.e. eth1 in Dark-Fiber without Internet)  
How do i definite the open external Network Device with Internet? (f.e. eth0)  
I don’t need to say that over this eth0 no Cluster or Server communication shout go.  
Only external Downloads and Requests.

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**Author:** ![inmanturbo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/inmanturbo/32/7247_2.png) [@inmanturbo](https://forums.suse.com/u/inmanturbo)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 9:00pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/2-pysical-ethernet-devices/20869/2 "2021-09-07T21:00:19Z")

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I looks like there are high priority plans for additional networking features and NIC management.

> <https://github.com/harvester/harvester/issues/1055>
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> We would like to have a dedicated storage network interface that can be specifie…d (either as single nic or bonded NICs) to separate the storage traffic from the overlay traffic.
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> Depends on https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn/issues/2285 and #1048

> <https://github.com/harvester/harvester/issues/1048>
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> \*\*Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.\*\*
> Currently, u…sers still need to ssh to the node and create the bond network manually before they can assign it to the VLAN network, also during the ISO installation they can't create a bonded network even if they have multiple NICs.
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> \*\*Describe the solution you'd like\*\*
> \- allow users to create a bonded network through the Harvester UI
> \- allow users to create a bonded network during the ISO instllation
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> \*\*Describe alternatives you've considered\*\*
> 
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> \*\*Additional context\*\*
> https://github.com/harvester/network-controller-harvester/pull/34