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Click Status, and look at the Interface Status Summary as shown next.

Ethernet interface ge4 has a status of Port Group Up, and Ethernet interfaces

ge5 and ge6 are disabled and have a Status of Port Group Inactive.

Figure 56 Status: Interface Status Summary After Port Grouping

6.2 How to Configure Load Balancing

With the topology in

bandwidth Internet connection (100 Mbps) while ge2 and ge3 just have 1 Mbps

each. Here is how to have the ZyWALL use ge8 for most Internet traffic and only

use interfaces ge2 and ge3 for any traffic that exceeds what ge8 can handle.

Here is how to use load balancing to have the ZyWALL mainly use ge8 when

sending traffic to the Internet.

Figure 57 Trunk Example

You need to set up the outgoing bandwidth on each of the three interfaces and

configure the WAN_TRUNK trunk's load balancing settings.

Figure 51 on page

119, suppose interface ge8 has a high

ge8: 100 Mbps

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