diff --git a/meta-google/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-config.bbappend b/meta-google/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-config.bbappend
index 0250bda..1afe115 100644
--- a/meta-google/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-config.bbappend
+++ b/meta-google/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-config.bbappend
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@
     exit 1
   fi
   gbmc_add_channel ${GBMCBR_IPMI_CHANNEL} gbmcbr
+  if [ -n "${GBMC_NCSI_IF_NAME}" ]; then
+    gbmc_add_channel 1 ${GBMC_NCSI_IF_NAME}
+  fi
 
   # Set entity-map.json to empty json for gBMC by default.
   # Each system will override it if needed.