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(iv) Port Trunking
Applicable to NAS models with two or more LAN ports only.
The NAS supports port trunking which combines two Ethernet interfaces into one to
increase the bandwidth and offers load balancing and fault tolerance (also known as
failover). Load balancing is a feature which distributes the workload evenly across two
Ethernet interfaces for higher redundancy. Failover is the capability to switch over to a
standby network interface (also known as the slave interface) when the primary network
interface (also known as the master interface) does not correspond correctly to maintain
high availability.
To use port trunking on the NAS, make sure at least two LAN ports of the NAS have
been connected to the same switch and the settings described in sections (i) and (ii)
have been configured.
Follow the steps below to configure port trunking on the NAS:
1. Click “Port Trunking”.