Figure 6.6 shows the first of a series of related screens that appears when the Network interfaces option is selected from the Wizard menu.
The screen shown in Figure 6.6 allows the administrative user to set or change the parameters in the following table.
Clicking the Next button on the Network Interfaces screen brings up one of two screens, depending on whether failover is enabled or disabled. See
Configuring failover and
Configuring primary and secondary Ethernet ports.
Table 6.2 describes the parameters that can be set on the failover configuration screen and on the primary and secondary Ethernet configuration screens.
Configuring the network interfaces sets up a default route for the OnBoard appliance. When the DHCP checkbox is checked on any of the network interface screens, the DHCP server assigns the OnBoard appliance a default route. If the
DHCP checkbox is not checked, the gateway IP specified by the administrative user in the Gateway IP field is used to create a default route for the interface. If a host or network route is required, the administrative user should go to the Network-Static routes screen.
If failover is enabled on the Network Interfaces screen, clicking the Next button brings up a screen for configuring the failover device.
Figure 6.7 shows the fields that appear on the screen for configuring the failover device if the DHCP option is not checked. If the DHCP option is not checked, no further configuration is needed. Clicking the
Next button brings up the subnet configuration screen.
With failover enabled, the secondary Ethernet interface becomes bonded to the primary Ethernet interface, and the secondary Ethernet interface becomes active only if the primary Ethernet port is not available. As a result, the values entered in the fields on the screen shown in
Figure 6.7 apply to the single bond0 interface.
When failover is disabled on the Network Interfaces screen, clicking the Next button brings up the first of two screens for configuring the primary and secondary Ethernet ports. The screen for configuring the secondary Ethernet port is identical to the screen for the primary Ethernet port except for the screen’s heading.
Figure 6.8 shows the screen for configuring the primary Ethernet connection with the additional fields that appear when the DHCP button is not checked. The administrative user enters the required information on this screen for configuring the OnBoard appliance to use a static IP address.
Clicking the Next button on the primary Ethernet configuration screen brings up a screen for configuring the secondary Ethernet connection. Clicking the
Next button on the secondary Ethernet configuration screen brings up the next Wizard screen for configuring subnets.