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Select
Enable Bridging
on the
System: IP
General Settings
menu.
Select
Bridge Interfaces
or
Bond Interfaces
o
When bridging is enabled, network traffic is forwarded across all Ethernet ports with no
firewall restrictions. All the Ethernet ports are all transparently connected at the data
link layer (layer 2) so they do retain their unique MAC addresses.
o
With bonding the network traffic is carried between the ports but they present with one
MAC address.
o
Both modes remove all the
Management LAN Interface
and
Out-‐of-‐Band/Failover
Interface
functions and disable the
DHCP Server
.
o
All the Ethernet ports are all transparently connected at the data link layer (layer 2) and
they are configured collectively using the
Network Interface
menu.
3.6.5 Static routes
Static routes provide a very quick way to route data from one subnet to different subnet. So you can hard
code a path that specifies to the
console server
to get to a certain subnet by using a certain path. This
may be useful for remotely accessing various subnets at a remote site when being accessed using the
cellular out of band connection.