# IP Hold feature

**URL:** <https://forum.opennebula.io/t/ip-hold-feature/4019>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [March 23, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/ip-hold-feature/4019 "2017-03-23T15:54:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/ip-hold-feature/4019/1 "2017-03-23T15:54:42Z")

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I have general question about IP hold feature (we are on 5.2.0 version and using out of box IP management that comes with nebula). Once I put IP on hold it doesn’t get assigned to any other vm that is adding given network. But, how can I effectively release that IP and assign it to vm ? I tried using onevm updateconf and it gets overwritten by whats in the template.

Also, when I do onevm show I get this output

> VM NICS  
> ID NETWORK BRIDGE IP MAC PCI\_ID  
> 0 My LAN CustomersPri 10.0.20.118 02:00:0a:00:14:76
> 
> - Additional IP - 192.###.###.118
> - Additional IP - fe80::c0ff:fe43:a476
> - Additional IP - 10.0.20.107
> - Additional IP - fe80::aff:fe00:146b

### replaced real numbers

What I did is removed two nic’s that are listed above with additional IP’s and added one (ID 0) Why are the other ones listed there as additional IP even though those were deleted ?