Attach multiple network interfaces (multiple TAPs) to a single Firecracker microVM and control guest-side device naming
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Documented steps
Each NIC is a separate network-interfaces/{id} resource pointing at its own host TAP: PUT /network-interfaces/my_net0 {host_dev_name:tap0}, PUT /network-interfaces/my_net1 {host_dev_name:tap1}
iface_id is a Firecracker-internal management label only; the name the interface gets in the guest (eth0, eth1, ...) is decided by the guest kernel, not by Firecracker
Set guest_mac explicitly if the guest/rootfs expects a specific MAC-to-IP mapping (e.g. 06:00:AC:10:00:02 for the default 172.16.0.2); otherwise omit it and the guest generates a random MAC
Create and NAT/bridge each host TAP separately (ip tuntap add tap1 mode tap; give each its own /30 subnet and masquerade/forward rules) - Firecracker supports only the TUN/TAP backend with no multi-queue
Configure routing inside the guest per interface (ip addr add / ip link set up / ip route) or pass kernel ip= boot args to automate it
Known gotchas
Firecracker does not guarantee the guest initializes network interfaces in the same order as the API calls that created them, though most kernels do
MTU is a per-interface field on the NetworkInterface schema - set it if you need jumbo frames
Firecracker has no multi-queue TUN/TAP support, so per-NIC throughput is limited; add more NICs or use vhost for scale
For namespaced NAT (two clones of the same microVM running together) use the dedicated network-for-clones setup
Official doc: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/main/docs/network-setup.md
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