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SteelFusion Edge Installation and Configuration Guide
Installing and Configuring the SteelFusion Edge Appliance
Preparing Your Site for Installation
The 2U appliance comes equipped with a preinstalled 4-port 1 Gbe copper bypass NIC with an integrated
LSI expander NIC for bypass support. The 2U has 5 additional slots for and add-on NICs for a total of 6
slots. Slot 1, 2, 3 and 4 are assigned to the RiOS node and Slots 5 and 6 are assigned to Hypervisor node.
For detailed information about installing additional NICs, see the
SteelFusion Edge Hardware Installation and
Maintenance Guide
.
Avoiding Duplex Mismatch
Before you begin the configuration process, ensure that your LAN and WAN interfaces have the same
duplex settings.
The Edge automatically negotiates duplex settings. If one end of the link is set to autonegotiate and the
other end of the link is not set to autonegotiate, the duplex settings on the network device default to half-
duplex. This duplex mismatch passes traffic, but it causes late collisions and results in degraded
optimization. To achieve maximum optimization, set your network devices to 100 and full.
To avoid duplex mismatches, manually configure the duplex settings on your:
router.
switch.
Edge
appliance
WAN interface.
Edge
appliance
LAN interface.
Edge
appliance
primary interface.
The following signs can indicate a duplex mismatch:
On the Administration > Diagnostics: System Logs page, you see errors for sends, receives, cyclic
redundancy check (CRC), and short sends.
You cannot connect to an attached device.
You can connect to a device when you choose autonegotiation, but you cannot connect to that same
device when you manually set the speed or duplex.
Slow performance across the network.
