---
title: "API support for multiple private networks"
description: "API support for multiple private networks"
date: 2018-01-17
author: "Marc-Aurèle Brothier"
url: https://www.exoscale.com/blog/introducing-multiple-private-networks/
---
# API support for multiple private networks

While we have been busy with [Meltdown and
Spectre](https://www.exoscale.com/blog/spectre-and-meltdown-update/),
as well as our recent [Object storage
release](https://www.exoscale.com/blog/object-storage/) we
are happy to announce API-only support for multiple private networks.

To create additional private networks, the
[`createNetwork`](https://community.exoscale.com/api/compute/#createnetwork_GET)
call can now be called in conjunction with
[`addNicToVirtualMachine`](https://community.exoscale.com/api/compute/#addnictovirtualmachine_GET)
to make use of up to 8 private networks by default. Read more about those
API calls in the
[private network documentation](https://community.exoscale.com/documentation/compute/private-networks/#using-the-api).

To ensure interface naming consistency, our Linux Ubuntu templates
have been modified to use the `eth`-based naming, ensuring that your
public interface will be `eth0` and additional NICs will start from
`eth1`.

Support for creating and attaching multiple private networks will be
available from our web portal in February.