User's Manual

USER MANUAL

Peplink Balance Series

the LAN.

Port Settings

Ports

To choose a physical Ethernet port to act as a LAN interface (in addition to the dedicated

LAN port or ports), check the appropriate box and choose a speed setting from the drop-

down menu immediately to the right of the listing. The default setting is Auto, which allows

the Balance to detect and apply an appropriate data speed setting.

Drop-in Mode Settings

(Available on Peplink Balance 210+)

Enable

Drop-in Mode eases the installation of the Peplink Balance on a live network between the

existing firewall and router, such that no configuration changes are required on existing

equipment. Check the box to enable the Drop-in Mode feature.

Please refer to Section, Drop-in Modefor details.

WAN for Drop-In

Mode

Select the WAN port to be used for Drop

-in Mode. If WAN 1 with LAN Bypass

is selected,

the

High Availability feature will be disabled automatically.

Shared Drop-

Mode

When this option is enabled, the passthrough IP address will be used to connect to WAN

hosts (email notification, remote syslog, etc.). The Balance will listen for this IP address

when WAN hosts access services provided by the Balance (Web Admin access from the

WAN, DNS server requests, etc.).

To connect to hosts on the LAN (email notification, remote syslog, etc.), the default gateway