Configuring Network Interfaces

Interfaces configure IP addresses via datalinks. Interfaces support the following features:

• IPv4 and IPv6 protocols.

• IPMP - IP network multipathing, to improve network reliability by allowing IP addresses to automatically migrate from failed to working datalinks.

The following settings are available for interfaces.

Table 2-7 Interface Properties

BUI Property	CLI Property	Description
Name	label	Custom name for the interface.
Enable Interface	enable	Enable this interface to be used for IP traffic. If an interface is disabled, the appliance will no longer send or receive IP traffic over it, or make use of any IP addresses configured on it. At present, disabling an active IP interface in an IPMP group will not trigger activation of a standby interface.
Allow Administration	allow	Allow connections to the appliance administration BUI or CLI over this interface. If your network environment included a separate administration network, this could be enabled for the administration network only to improve security. See Configuring a Management Interface - BUI, CLI.
IPv4 Configure with	v4addrs or v4dhcp	Select Static Address List (or enter values for v4addrs) or select DHCP (or set v4dhcp to true) for dynamically requested.
IPv4 Address/Mask	v4addrs	One or more IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (192.168.1.1/24).
IPv6 Configure with	v6addrs or v6dhcp	Select Static Address List (or enter values for v6addrs) or select IPv6 AutoConfiguration (or set v6dhcp to true) to use automatically generated link-local address (and site-local if an IPv6 router responds).
IPv6 Address/Mask	v6addrs	One or more IPv6 addresses in CIDR notation (1080::8:800:200C:417A/32).
Directly Reachable Network(s)	v4directnets or v6directnets	Directly reachable subnet(s), expressed as an IP address and mask in CIDR notation, that the local IP address is not a member of, but to which the datalink of its interface is physically connected. This improves scalability by conserving IP addresses, and could ease traffic congestion through core switches and routers.
IP MultiPathing Group	links	Configure IP network multipathing, where a pool of datalinks can be used for redundancy.