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Excerpts from hu.zhijiang's message of 2016-08-24 11:11:04 +0800:
> Hi Bifrost Team,
> 
> From the code study about Bifrost and Shade I found that the "nics" 
> argument provide to ansible's os_ironic module is used for creating ports 
> for a bare metal. I think it is related to neutron. But for bifrost which 
> uses ironic in standalone mode, there is no need to create ports like 
> this. So I don't know why we need to provide the "nics" argument. Is it 
> optional or even shall be hidden from Bifrost user's eyes?

Nics are still needed for drivers that need to know the boot MAC of the
machine, such as PXE.