Opengear OM1200 Series, User Manual

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Round Robin Balancing - Packets are sequentially trans-
mitted/received through each interfaces one by one.
Active Backup
- If the active secondary interface is changed
during a failover, the bond interface’s MAC address is then
changed to match the new active secondary’s MAC address.
XOR Balancing
- Balances traffic by splitting up outgoing
packets between the Ethernet interfaces, using the same one
for each specific destination when possible.
Broadcast
- All network transmissions are sent on all sec-
ondary interfaces. This mode provides fault tolerance.
802.3ad (Dynamic Link Aggregation)
- Aggregated NICs
act as one NIC, but also provides failover in the case that a
NIC fails. Dynamic Link Aggregation requires a switch that
supports IEEE 802.3ad.
Transmit Load Balancing
- Outgoing traffic is distributed
depending on the current load on each secondary interface.
Incoming traffic is received by the current secondary inter-
face. If the receiving secondary fails, another secondary
takes over the MAC address of the failed secondary.
Adaptive Load Balancing
- Includes transmit load bal-
ancing (tlb) and receive load balancing (rlb) for IPv4 traffic
and does not require any special switch support.
Poll Interval The poll interval specifies the MII link monitoring frequency in
milliseconds. This determines how often the link state of each
secondary is inspected for link failures. A value of zero dis-
ables MII link monitoring.
Network Interface
Selection Click the check box of each network interface you want to
include in the bridge.
Primary Interface Select the interface that is to be used for selecting the MAC
address of the aggregate. The new bond inherits the MAC
address of the primary interface. On creation, any Network
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