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Configuring Network Interfaces—Wizard
124 AlterPath OnBoard Administrator’s Guide
Clicking the “Next” button on the “Network Interfaces” screen brings up one
of two screens, depending on whether failover is enabled or disabled. See
“Configuring Failover” on page 125 and “Configuring Primary and
Secondary Ethernet Ports” on page 126.
Table 4-3 describes the parameters that can be set on the failover
configuration screen, and on the primary and secondary Ethernet
configuration screens.
Primary DNS server IP address for a primary DNS server on the same subnet as the
OnBoard
Secondary DNS server IP address for an optional secondary DNS server on the same
subnet as the OnBoard
Failover Selecting “enabled” from the pull-down menu configures
failover from the primary to the secondary Ethernet port if the
primary port goes down. For background information, see
“Ethernet Ports on the OnBoard” on page 34.
Table 4-3: Ethernet Port Settings
Settings Notes
DHCP DHCP is enabled by default on the OnBoard’s interfaces. If DHCP is
enabled, the OnBoard looks for a DHCP server on the same network. If a
DHCP server cannot be located, the OnBoard falls back to using the
default IP address described below. The additional fields in the table rows
below appear only if DHCP is not checked, because they are needed only
when configuring a static IP address for the interface.
IP address 192.168.160.10 is assigned by default to eth0.
Network mask The desired netmask in the form: 255.255.255.0.
Gateway IP IP address for a gateway on the same subnet as the OnBoard
MTU The maximum transmission unit value for the Ethernet port.
Default=1500.
Table 4-2: Network Interfaces Configuration Values (Continued)
Settings Notes