Xirrus XR-520, User Manual

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Wireless Array
Installing the Wireless Array 47
Failover Planning
This section discusses failover protection at the unit and port levels. To ensure
that service is continued in the event of a port failure, you can utilize two Gigabit
Ethernet ports simultaneously as a bonded pair (on Arrays with two or more
Gigabit ports).
Figure 23. Port Failover Protection
In addition, the Array has full failover protection between the bonded-pair
Gigabit ports (see following table).
The Wireless Array Gigabit Ethernet ports actually support a number of modes:

802.3ad Link Aggregation

Load Balancing

Broadcast

Link Backup

Mirrored
Interface
Bridges
Data?
Bridges
Management Traffic?
Fails Over
To:
IP address
Gigabit port Yes Yes Bonded
port
DHCP or static
Bonded
Gigabit port Yes Yes Bonded
port
Same
Ethernet switch
Multiple port connections