# Longhorn with 2 ethernet interfaces

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/longhorn-with-2-ethernet-interfaces/42506>\
**Category:** SUSE Storage\
**Created:** [February 5, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/longhorn-with-2-ethernet-interfaces/42506 "2024-02-05T17:03:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![ppcm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/ppcm/32/7162_2.png) [@ppcm](https://forums.suse.com/u/ppcm)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/longhorn-with-2-ethernet-interfaces/42506/1 "2024-02-05T17:03:06Z")

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Hello there,

My hosts have 2 ethernet interfaces, to optimize the network traffic, it could be a good idea to use one interface only for Longhorn (I think it is a good idea, let me know if I am wrong)

I guess I should use network policies, but I don’t know if it is the right way, or something else need to be used?

Thanks for your help

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**Author:** ![DamiaSan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/damiasan/32/10939_2.png) [@DamiaSan](https://forums.suse.com/u/DamiaSan)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 8:41am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/longhorn-with-2-ethernet-interfaces/42506/2 "2024-02-07T08:41:44Z")

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Can you have a look at this? [[FEATURE] Support multi-network K8s clusters (storage network) · Issue #2285 · longhorn/longhorn · GitHub](https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn/issues/2285)

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**Author:** ![Draahp\_Squad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/draahp_squad/32/10874_2.png) [@Draahp\_Squad](https://forums.suse.com/u/Draahp_Squad)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 1:11pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/longhorn-with-2-ethernet-interfaces/42506/3 "2024-02-08T13:11:47Z")

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How fast are your NICs and how many servers will be accessing this storage?

In my setup, TrueNAS is still my central NAS and its performance was enhanced after creating a LAGG pair with 2 1GB NICS. You could leverage a diff VNET or subnet for storage traffic from the hosts to your Longhorn server.
