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CHAPTER 4: SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
Click Apply.
NOTE: The failover method is not active until the external sites to be probed to trigger failover are specified and the failover ports
themselves are set-up. This is covered in Chapter 6.
NOTE: On the LES1700, LES1516A, LES1532A, LES1548A, and LES1600 models, the second Ethernet port can be configured as either a
gateway port or as an OOB/Failover port, but not both.
FIGURE 4-24. MANAGEMENT LAN TAB
4.6.4 AGGREGATING THE NETWORK PORTS
By default, the console server's Management LAN network ports can only be accessed using SSH tunneling/port forwarding or by
establishing an IPsec VPN tunnel to the console server.
All the wired network ports on the console servers can be aggregated by being bridged or bonded.
Navigate to System > IP.
Click the General Settings tab.
Click the Bridge Interfaces or Bond Interfaces radio button to enable wired Ethernet interface aggregation.
When bridging is enabled, network traffic is forwarded across all Ethernet ports with no firewall restrictions. All Ethernet ports are
transparently connected at the data link layer (layer 2) so they do retain their unique MAC addresses.
With bonding, the network traffic is carried between the ports but they present with one MAC address.
Both modes remove all the Management LAN Interface and Out-of-Band/Failover Interface functions and disable the DHCP Server.
NOTE: In aggregation mode, all the Ethernet ports are configured collectively via the System > IP > Network Interface tab.