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Hello,

I am trying to setup a Cisco NXOS 9k environment. The server is a bare metal server (HP ProLiant Gen8 - 2 x Intel Xeon, 10 core each - 64 GB RAM) running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. The only change on Ubuntu was renaming the network interface from eno1 to eth0 (as Eve-NG documentation requires).

I have the following images of Cisco NXOS:
- nxosv9k-9.2.2
- nxosv9k-9.2.1
- nxosv9k-7.0.3.I7.4
- nxosv9k-9.3.6

On all of them I have the following issue:
1. If I select 8 ethernets the Cisco Nexus will have
- 8 UP Ethernets (which is wrong, it should have 8 status link down ethernets)
- 128 Down Ethernets (which you can't control, since they are not in Eve-NG config)

2. I have tried all images of Cisco NXOS, but same issue on all of them.
So If I chose like 20 Ethernets, before creation, there wil be 128 ethernets UP no matter what I do and 52 (which I didn't create and I don't know why they are there) state down.

I have attached 2 images:
- creation of Nexus node
- show interfaces brief on a nexus node with 8 ethernets configured in Eve-NG

Can you please help?
Thanks
Catalin

It is specific of Nexus image, it does not support L1 option, and all Cisco nexus images interface states will be up/up by default even nothing is connected
It is not EVE issue

Hello,

Thanks for the reply.

How can I correct this? I can shut all down and then use the specific ones? Is there a workaround for this?

Thanks

you cannot, because such is Nexus 9000v image. Noting ca be done with interfaces, you will see all what image does support. Your case 128 ethernet interfaces above