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DR Series Best Practice Guide

Hardware configuration

 DR1– 2x 1GB interfaces and bond0 as 2x 10GB interfaces

 DR2 – 2x 1GB interfaces and 2x 10GB interfaces

Configure DR1

1. Display the original configuration of DR1 using the following command:

network --show

2. Configure the DR to use the 1GB interfaces as bond0 members and free the 10GB interfaces

for backup traffic.

a) Perform a factory reset of the network and then reboot the appliance:

network --factory_reset --auto_bonding_speed 1G

system --reboot

Example

administrator@DR1 > network --show

Automatic bonding speed: 10G

Device : bond0

Enabled : yes

Link : yes

Boot protocol : dhcp

IP Addr : 10.250.243.132

Netmask : 255.255.252.0

Gateway : 10.250.240.1

MAC Addr : BC:30:5B:F3:22:70

MTU : 9000

Bonding options : "mode=balance-alb miimon=100 xmit_hash_policy=2"

Member Interfaces : eth2,eth3

Interface name : swsys-78

eth2 MAC :78:2B:CB:1B:4A:28

eth2 Max Speed :10000baseT/Full

eth2 Speed :10000Mb/s

eth2 Duplex :Full

eth3 MAC :78:2B:CB:1B:4A:29

eth3 Max Speed :10000baseT/Full

eth3 Speed :10000Mb/s

eth3 Duplex :Full