Configure The Network Settings - NETGEAR ReadyDATA 5200 Software Manual

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Configure the Network Settings

• Configure the Physical Ethernet Interfaces
• Configure the Virtual Network Interface Cards
• Automatic Private IP Addressing without a DHCP Server
• Configure Channel Bonding
The ReadyDATA 5200 provides two physical 1-Gb Ethernet interfaces and two physical
10-Gb Ethernet interfaces. The Ethernet interfaces can be used independently as individual
interfaces or combined in a channel-bonded configuration using LACP and hash types 2
through 4. Channel bonding provides redundancy or increased throughput.
You can create and attach virtual NICs (VNICs) to individual and bonded interfaces. The
primary benefit of virtual networking is that it allows the ReadyDATA 5200 to service many
separate networks and to control how much bandwidth is used for each storage-related task.
For each VNIC, you can configure the following settings:
• VLAN membership
• Bandwidth limits
• IPv4 or IPv6 settings
• DNS servers
The following figure illustrates the use of VNICs in a ReadyDATA 5200 network configuration.
(Throttle refers to the bandwidth limit.)
ReadyDATA OS 1.2
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