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Quantum DXi4000 User's Guide
Note: The Domain Suffix Search List and DNS IP Addresses
cannot be modified if the DXi4000 is currently joined to a
Windows domain. To disjoin a Windows domain, see
Windows Domain
3 (Optional) Under IP Address Configuration > Bonding Details,
configure bonded interfaces:
a For each available port, select the interface to assign the port to
(for example, bond0 or bond1), or select Not Bonded.
All ports assigned to the same interface are bonded together
into a single logical port. For example, if you select bond0 for
port eth0 and port eth1, both ports are bonded together in the
bond0 interface. A bonded interface can contain two or more
ports.
b For each bonded interface, specify the bonding mode:
Note: To maintain network connectivity, the switch
connected to the DXi4000 must be configured to use
the same bonding mode. The best time to change the
bonding mode on the switch is during the next reboot
of your system, after saving the new network settings.
Changing the bonding mode on the switch before
saving these settings and rebooting may result in the
loss of network connectivity to the system.
• Round Robin (Mode 0) - This option sends Ethernet frames
using the bonded Ethernet ports with a valid MII link.
Frames are sent in a round-robin fashion, starting with the
first slave device and then the rest of the devices. This only
applies to the traffic sent from the DXi4000. The Ethernet
switch needs to aggregate the ports, so the connected ports
are treated as a logical port. The frame reception is
completely dependent on the transmission algorithm of the
Ethernet switch. The bonding mechanism does not balance
the frame reception.
• LACP (Mode 4) - This option (Link Aggregation Control
Protocol) is based on the 802.3ad IEEE standard for
aggregating Ethernet ports. If the bonding algorithm is set
to LACP, the Ethernet switch ports must be configured in a
802.3ad based Link Aggregation group (LAG) in LACP
Chapter 9: DXi4000 Configuration
on page 144.
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