Skybox Appliance 7000 Quick Start Guide
Skybox version 11.7.100
21
specification.
Prerequisites:
l
ethtool support in the base drivers for retrieving the speed and duplex of each slave.
l
A switch that supports IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic link aggregation. Most switches require
configuration to enable 802.3ad mode.
mode=5 (balance-tlb)
Adaptive transmit load balancing: Channel bonding that does not require special switch
support. The outgoing traffic is distributed according to the load (computed relative to the
speed) on each slave. Incoming traffic is received by the current slave. If the receiving slave
fails, another slave takes over the MAC address of the failed receiving slave.
Prerequisite:
l
ethtool support in the base drivers for retrieving the speed of each slave.
mode=6 (balance-alb)
Adaptive load balancing: Includes transmit load balancing and receive load balancing for IPv4
traffic, and does not require special switch support. The receive load balancing is achieved by
ARP negotiation. The bonding driver intercepts the ARP replies sent by the local system on
their way out and overwrites the source hardware address with the unique hardware address
of a slave in the bond such that different peers use different hardware addresses for the
server.
Setting up SNMP configuration
You can configure Skybox Appliances for SNMP v2 or SNMP v3. Enabled SNMP v3 is
backwards compatible with SNMP v2.
SNMP v2 Configuration
To use Skybox Appliance as an SNMP v2 Server
1. On the System tab, click SNMP.
2. Select Enable SNMP Service.
3. Set the following values in the tabs in the SNMP Service section:
l
On the General tab:
o
Listening Port: 161
o
Sending Port: 162
o
System Location: Physical location of your Skybox Appliance
o
Contact Details: Email address of the administrator
l
On the Security tab:
o
Read Only Community: SNMPv1 or SNMPv2 community string
o
Source: Name or IP address and subnet, represented as IP address/netmask
(10.10.10.0/255.255.255.0) or IP address/bits (10.10.10.0/24).
Comma-separate multiple sources
