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The two Ethernet ports found on the right side of the back of the OnBoard appliance are for public connections.The primary Ethernet port must be connected to an Ethernet switch, router or local area network (LAN) that provides Internet access, to enable remote configuration of the OnBoard appliance and remote access to connected devices.
• To connect to the same network as the primary Ethernet port for redundancy in case of failure of the primary port (referred to as Ethernet failover or bonding)With a failover configuration, the OnBoard appliance administrator needs to enable failover. The tasks are described in For more information, see the following sections..With failover enabled, if the first Ethernet port fails, the second one automatically becomes active until the first one recovers.You can use the RJ-45 to RJ-45 Ethernet CAT 5 cable shipped with the OnBoard appliance or an off-the-shelf CAT 5 or greater cable (such as CAT 5e) to connect the Ethernet ports to Ethernet switches, routers or local area network (LAN) ports.
2. If you are making one Ethernet connection, connect the other end of the cable to the primary Ethernet port on the OnBoard appliance.
3. If you are setting up Ethernet failover, connect a second cable from the same network to the secondary Ethernet port.
4. If you are using an optional Ethernet PCMCIA card on the OnBoard appliance, connect a cable between one of the Ethernet connections listed in step 1 to the PCMCIA card.