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(instances-routed-nic-vm)=
# How to add a routed NIC device to a virtual machine
When adding a {ref}`routed NIC device <nic-routed>` to an instance, you must configure the instance to use the link-local gateway IPs as default routes.
For containers, this is configured for you automatically.
For virtual machines, the gateways must be configured manually or via a mechanism like `cloud-init`.
To configure the gateways with `cloud-init`, firstly initialize an instance:
lxc init ubuntu:22.04 jammy --vm
Then add the routed NIC device:
lxc config device add jammy eth0 nic nictype=routed parent=my-parent-network ipv4.address=192.0.2.2 ipv6.address=2001:db8::2
In this command, `my-parent-network` is your parent network, and the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are within the subnet of the parent.
Next we will add some `netplan` configuration to the instance using the `cloud-init.network-config` configuration key:
cat <<EOF | lxc config set jammy cloud-init.network-config -
network:
version: 2
ethernets:
enp5s0:
routes:
- to: default
via: 169.254.0.1
on-link: true
- to: default
via: fe80::1
on-link: true
addresses:
- 192.0.2.2/32
- 2001:db8::2/128
EOF
This `netplan` configuration adds the {ref}`static link-local next-hop addresses <nic-routed>` (`169.254.0.1` and `fe80::1`) that are required.
For each of these routes we set `on-link` to `true`, which specifies that the route is directly connected to the interface.
We also add the addresses that we configured in our routed NIC device.
For more information on `netplan`, see [their documentation](https://netplan.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
```{note}
This `netplan` configuration does not include a name server.
To enable DNS within the instance, you must set a valid DNS IP address.
If there is a `lxdbr0` network on the host, the name server can be set to that IP instead.
```
You can then start your instance with:
lxc start jammy
```{note}
Before you start your instance, make sure that you have {ref}`configured the parent network <nic-routed>` to enable proxy ARP/NDP.
```
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