In this instance, wouldn't you want just a single interface and then have 3
IPs on it? The primary flag is a marker for which nictag should be used as
the default route.

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015, 14:28 Eric <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On September 25, 2015 5:11:52 PM EDT, Ian Collins <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > From the vmadm man page:
> >
> >        nics.*.primary
> >
> >            This option selects which NIC's default gateway and
> >nameserver values
> >            will be used for this VM. If a VM has any nics, there must
> >always be
> >            exactly one primary.  Setting a new primary will unset the
> >old. Trying
> >            to set two nics to primary is an error.
> >
> >            type: boolean (only true is valid)
> >            vmtype: OS,KVM
> >            listable: yes (see above)
> >            create: yes
> >            update: yes (setting primary=true on one NIC removes the
> >flag from the
> >                current primary, and sets on the new)
> >
> >Note "type: boolean (only true is valid)"
> 
> Only one nic is set to primary. I don't think the proper interface is
> being chosen when setting the default route during provisioning. If there
> is only one nic from the same subnet, it works, but if there are more than
> one, it doesn't know which IP should be used as the primary (even though
> the primary option is set to a specific nic).
> 



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