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Quantum DXi4500 User's Guide
• BOND ALL (Not segmented) - All ports (ETH2, ETH3, ETH4, and
ETH5) are bonded together and require a single set of network
settings on the IP page.
• BOND ALL (Replication/Management/Data) - All ports (ETH2,
ETH3, ETH4, and ETH5) are bonded together for all traffic types.
Each traffic type (Data, Management, and Replication) requires
a set of network settings on the IP page.
• ETH2 (Replication), BOND ALL-1 (Management/Data) - All
Replication traffic takes place on port ETH2. Data and
Management traffic take place on ports ETH3, ETH4, and ETH5.
Each traffic type (Data, Management, and Replication) requires
a set of network settings on the IP page.
• ETH2 (Management), BOND ALL-1 (Replication/Data) - All
Management traffic takes place on port ETH2. Data and
Replication traffic take place on ports ETH3, ETH4, and ETH5.
Each traffic type (Data, Management, and Replication) requires
a set of network settings on the IP page.
• BOND ALL-1 (Data), ETH2 (Replication/Management) - All
Data traffic takes place on ports ETH3, ETH4, and ETH5.
Management and Replication traffic take place on port ETH2.
Each traffic type (Data, Management, and Replication) requires
a set of network settings on the IP page.
3 Under Bonding, select a bonding option:
• 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 DXi4500. Your 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 your 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, your
Ethernet switch ports need to be configured in a 802.3ad based
Link Aggregation group (LAG) in LACP mode. The frame
reception and transmission is controlled by the LACP between
the bonded ports and your Ethernet switch ports.
Chapter 5: DXi4500 Configuration
Network Configuration
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