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Each field is described in the table below.
Table 111 Configuration > Network > Interface > Trunk > Add (or Edit)
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Name This is read-only if you are editing an existing trunk. When adding a new trunk, enter a
descriptive name for this trunk. You may use 1-31 alphanumeric characters,
underscores (
case-sensitive.
Load Balancing Select a load balancing method to use from the drop-down list box.
Algorithm
Select Weighted Round Robin to balance the traffic load between interfaces based on
their respective weights. An interface with a larger weight gets more chances to
transmit traffic than an interface with a smaller weight. For example, if the weight ratio
of wan1 and wan2 interfaces is 2:1, the ZyWALL/USG chooses wan1 for 2 sessions'
traffic and wan2 for 1 session's traffic in each round of 3 new sessions.
Select Least Load First to send new session traffic through the least utilized trunk
member.
Select Spillover to send network traffic through the first interface in the group
member list until there is enough traffic that the second interface needs to be used
(and so on).
Load Balancing This field is available if you selected to use the Least Load First or Spillover method.
Index(es)
Select Outbound, Inbound, or Outbound + Inbound to set the traffic to which the
ZyWALL/USG applies the load balancing method. Outbound means the traffic traveling
from an internal interface (ex. LAN) to an external interface (ex. WAN). Inbound means
the opposite.
The table lists the trunk's member interfaces. You can add, edit, remove, or move
entries for user configured trunks.
Add Click this to add a member interface to the trunk. Select an interface and click Add to
add a new member interface after the selected member interface.
Edit Select an entry and click Edit to modify the entry's settings.
Remove To remove a member interface, select it and click Remove. The ZyWALL/USG confirms
you want to remove it before doing so.
Move To move an interface to a different number in the list, click the Move icon. In the field
that appears, specify the number to which you want to move the interface.
# This column displays the priorities of the group's interfaces. The order of the interfaces
in the list is important since they are used in the order they are listed.
Member Click this table cell and select an interface to be a group member.
If you select an interface that is part of another Ethernet interface, the ZyWALL/USG
does not send traffic through the interface as part of the trunk. For example, if you
have physical port 5 in the ge2 representative interface, you must select interface ge2
in order to send traffic through port 5 as part of the trunk. If you select interface ge5 as
a member here, the ZyWALL/USG will not send traffic through port 5 as part of the
trunk.
Mode Click this table cell and select Active to have the ZyWALL/USG always attempt to use
this connection.
Select Passive to have the ZyWALL/USG only use this connection when all of the
connections set to active are down. You can only set one of a group's interfaces to
passive mode.
Weight This field displays with the weighted round robin load balancing algorithm. Specify the
weight (1~10) for the interface. The weights of the different member interfaces form a
ratio. This ratio determines how much traffic the ZyWALL/USG assigns to each member
interface. The higher an interface's weight is (relative to the weights of the interfaces),
the more sessions that interface should handle.
Chapter 9 Interfaces
), or dashes (-), but the first character cannot be a number. This value is
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