# vyos_interface – Manage Interface on VyOS network devices

New in version 2.4.

- DEPRECATED
- Synopsis
- Parameters
- Notes
- Examples
- Return Values
- Status

## DEPRECATED

Removed in Ansible:
| version: 2.13
Why: | Updated modules released with more functionality.
Alternative: | vyos_interfaces

## Synopsis

- This module provides declarative management of Interfaces on VyOS network devices.

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---
aggregate - |  | List of Interfaces definitions.
delay - | Default: 10 | Time in seconds to wait before checking for the operational state on remote device. This wait is applicable for operational state argument which are state with values `up`/`down` and neighbors.
description - |  | Description of Interface.

duplex
-

Choices:
- full
- half
- auto ←

Interface link status.

enabled
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes

Interface link status.

mtu - |  | Maximum size of transmit packet.
name - / required |  | Name of the Interface.
neighbors - added in 2.5 |  | Check the operational state of given interface `name` for LLDP neighbor. The following suboptions are available.
| host - |  | LLDP neighbor host for given interface `name`.
| port - |  | LLDP neighbor port to which given interface `name` is connected.

provider
dictionary

Deprecated
Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using `connection: network_cli`.
For more information please see the Network Guide.

A dict object containing connection details.

| host string / required |  | Specifies the DNS host name or address for connecting to the remote device over the specified transport. The value of host is used as the destination address for the transport.
| password string |  | Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD` will be used instead.
| port integer | Default: 22 | Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device.
| ssh_keyfile path |  | Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is the path to the key used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE` will be used instead.
| timeout integer | Default: 10 | Specifies the timeout in seconds for communicating with the network device for either connecting or sending commands. If the timeout is exceeded before the operation is completed, the module will error.
| username string |  | Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME` will be used instead.
speed - |  | Interface link speed.

state
-

Choices:
- present ←
- absent
- up
- down

State of the Interface configuration, `up` means present and operationally up and `down` means present and operationally `down`

## Notes

Note

- Tested against VYOS 1.1.7
- For more information on using Ansible to manage network devices see the Ansible Network Guide

## Examples

    - name: configure interface
      vyos_interface:
        name: eth0
        description: test-interface

    - name: remove interface
      vyos_interface:
        name: eth0
        state: absent

    - name: make interface down
      vyos_interface:
        name: eth0
        enabled: False

    - name: make interface up
      vyos_interface:
        name: eth0
        enabled: True

    - name: Configure interface speed, mtu, duplex
      vyos_interface:
        name: eth5
        state: present
        speed: 100
        mtu: 256
        duplex: full

    - name: Set interface using aggregate
      vyos_interface:
        aggregate:
          - { name: eth1, description: test-interface-1,  speed: 100, duplex: half, mtu: 512}
          - { name: eth2, description: test-interface-2,  speed: 1000, duplex: full, mtu: 256}

    - name: Disable interface on aggregate
      net_interface:
        aggregate:
          - name: eth1
          - name: eth2
        enabled: False

    - name: Delete interface using aggregate
      net_interface:
        aggregate:
          - name: eth1
          - name: eth2
        state: absent

    - name: Check lldp neighbors intent arguments
      vyos_interface:
        name: eth0
        neighbors:
        - port: eth0
          host: netdev

    - name: Config + intent
      vyos_interface:
        name: eth1
        enabled: False
        state: down

## Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key | Returned | Description
--- | --- | ---
commands list | always, except for the platforms that use Netconf transport to manage the device. | The list of configuration mode commands to send to the device Sample: ['set interfaces ethernet eth0 description "test-interface"', 'set interfaces ethernet eth0 speed 100', 'set interfaces ethernet eth0 mtu 256', 'set interfaces ethernet eth0 duplex full']

## Status

- This module will be removed in version 2.13. [deprecated]
- For more information see DEPRECATED.

### Authors

- Ganesh Nalawade (@ganeshrn)

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