Chapter 8 Physical Interfaces
In this menu, you configure the physical interfaces that you have used when connecting
your gateway. The configuration interface only shows the interfaces that are available on
your device. In the System Management->Status menu, you can see a list of all physical
interfaces and information on whether the interfaces are connected or active and whether
they have already been configured.
8.1 Ethernet Ports
An Ethernet interface is a physical interface for connection to the local network or external
networks.
The Ethernet ports ETH1 to ETH4 are assigned to a single logical Ethernet interface in ex
works state. The logical Ethernet interface
is assigned and is preconfigured with the
IP Address
and Netmask
.
Note
To ensure your system can be reached, when splitting ports make sure that Ethernet
interface
with the preconfigured IP address and netmask is assigned to a port
that can be reached via Ethernet. If in doubt, carry out the configuration using a serial
connection via the Serial 1 interface.
ETH1 - ETH4
The interfaces can be used separately. They are logically separated from each other, each
separated port is assigned the desired logical Ethernet interface in the Ethernet Interface
Selection field of the Port Configuration menu. For each assigned Ethernet interface, an-
other interface is displayed in the list in the LAN->IP Configuration menu, and the inter-
face can be confugred completely independently.
VLANs for Routing Interfaces
Configure VLANs to separate individual network segments from each other, for example
(e.g. individual departments of a company) or to reserve bandwidth for individual VLANs
when managed switches are used with the QoS function.
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