Our Application supports multi-tenant and multi-Cloud (Zscaler internal clouds) connectivity. For this, we have to utilize public IP on each NIC. With the Bonded approach, we were able to assign Public IP on the primary interface but not on the other interfaces. This is the main requirement for our PZEN qualification in Equinix Metal, also for our future planned infra expansion.

For our use case we require separate public IP's on individual Nic's as we found the performance was not where we wanted it when the two nics were bonded. We want to have two completely isolated interfaces. We also would like to streamline the process of getting additional ip's assigned like we do today with the single public ip.