Basic Installation Procedures : Making Public Ethernet Connections

Making Public Ethernet Connections
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.
The secondary Ethernet port can be optionally used in the following ways:
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.
One or more optional Ethernet PCMCIA cards may be inserted and configured to support the following:
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.
To make a public Ethernet connection:
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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.