Advanced interface options have default settings that are appropriate for most networks. Configure them only if you are resolving networking problems.
The following procedure assumes the interface is already defined. You can also edit these settings while initially editing or creating the interface.
This procedure and all of the steps in it are optional.
Procedure
Step 1 | In the Editing Physical Interface dialog box, click the Advanced tab. |
Step 2 | Configure the following advanced settings:
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HA Monitoring: Enable to include the health of the interface as a factor when the HA pair decides whether to fail over to the peer unit in a high availability configuration. This option is ignored if you do not configure high availability. It is also ignored if you do not configure a name for the interface.
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Management Only: Enable to make a data interface management only.
A management only interface does not allow through traffic, so there is very little value in setting a data interface as a management only interface. You cannot change this setting for the Management/Diagnostic interface, which is always management only.
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MTU: The default MTU is 1500 bytes. You can specify a value from 64 - 9198. Set a high value if you typically see jumbo frames on your network.
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Duplex and Speed (Mbps): The default is that the interface negotiates the best duplex and speed with the interface at the other end of the wire, but you can force a specific duplex or speed if necessary. The options listed are only those supported by the interface. Before setting these options for interfaces on a network module, please read Limitations for Interface Configuration.
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Duplex: Choose Auto, Half, or Full. Auto is the default when the interface supports it.
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Speed: Choose Auto to have the interface negotiate the speed (this is the default), or pick a specific speed: 10, 100, 1000, 10000 Mbps. You can also select these special options:
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DAD Attempts: How often the interface performs Duplicate Address Detection (DAD), from 0 - 600. The default is 1. During the stateless auto configuration process, DAD verifies the uniqueness of new unicast IPv6 addresses before the addresses are assigned to interfaces. If the duplicate address is the link-local address of the interface, the processing of IPv6 packets is disabled on the interface. If the duplicate address is a global address, the address is not used. The interface uses neighbor solicitation messages to perform Duplicate Address Detection. Set the value to 0 to disable duplicate address detection (DAD) processing.
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MAC Address: The Media Access Control in H.H.H format, where H is a 16-bit hexadecimal digit. For example, you would enter the MAC address 00-0C-F1-42-4C-DE as 000C.F142.4CDE. The MAC address must not have the multicast bit set, that is, the second hexadecimal digit from the left cannot be an odd number.)
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Standby MAC Address: For use with high availability. If the active unit fails over and the standby unit becomes active, the new active unit starts using the active MAC addresses to minimize network disruption, while the old active unit uses the standby address.
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Step 3 | If you saved the interface, and you don't want to continue advanced interface options, continue to Enable the Interface. |
Step 4 | Click Save. |