Dell Wyse ThinLinux 1.0.3 Administrator’s Guide

The number of bonded connections that are set up are listed here. To add a new bond connection, click the Add button and select the type of connection you want to create. The available options are Ethernet and InfiniBand.

Select the type of Network Mode from the drop-down list. The available options are:

Link Monitoring — Select the type of link monitoring from the drop-down list. The available options are:

• MII (recommended)
• ARP

Enter the time in ms for the link up delay duration.

Enter the time in ms for the link down delay duration.

• If Automatic (DHCP) method is selected, you must configure the following options:
  1. Additional DNS Servers — Type the IP addresses of domain name users that are used to resolve host names. Use commas to separate multiple domain name server addresses.

  2. Additional Search Domains — Type the IP addresses of domains used when resolving host names. Use commas to separate multiple domains.

  3. DHCP client ID — Enter the ID for the DHCP client. This client identifier allows the network administrator to customize your computer’s configuration.

  4. Require IPv4 addressing for this connection to complete — The IPv4 address is required to complete the connection. If the IPv4 address is not available, then the connection is not configured.

  5. Click the Routes button to edit IPv4 routes for Bond connection.

     1. Click Add to add an IP address. After an IP is added, Netmask, Gateway and Metric specific to that IP are displayed.

     2. Select the check box if you want to ignore the automatically obtained routes.

     3. Select this check box if you want to use your connection only for resources on that particular network.

• If Automatic (DHCP) addresses only method is selected, you must configure the following options:
  1. DNS Servers — Type the IP addresses of domain name users that are used to resolve host names. Use commas to separate multiple domain name server addresses.

  2. Search domains — Type the IP addresses of domains that are used when resolving host names. Use commas to separate multiple domains.

  3. DHCP client ID — Enter the ID for the DHCP client. This client identifier allows you to customize your computer’s configuration.

  • NOTE: The other settings remain same as described in automatic (DHCP) method for IPv4 authentication.
• If Manual method is selected, you must configure the following options:
  1. Click Add to add an IP address. After an IP is added, Netmask, Gateway specific to that IP are displayed.

  2. DNS Servers — Type the IP addresses of domain name users that are used to resolve host names. Use commas to separate multiple domain name server addresses.

  3. Search domains — Type the IP addresses of domains used when resolving host names. Use commas to separate multiple domains.

  • NOTE: The DHCP client ID option and Ignore automatically obtained routes check boxes are disabled.

    The other settings remains the same as described in automatic (DHCP) method for IPv4 authentication.

• If Link-Local Only method is selected, the DNS Servers, Search domains, DHCP client ID, and Routes options are disabled. You can select the Require IPv4 addressing for this connection to complete check box to allow the connection to complete. The IPv4 address is required to complete the connection. If the IPv4 address is not available, then the connection is not configured.

• If Shared to other computers method is selected, the DNS Servers, Search domains, DHCP client ID, and Routes options are disabled. You can select the Require IPv4 addressing for this connection to complete check box to allow the connection to complete. The IPv4 address is required to complete the connection. If the IPv4 address is not available, then the connection is not configured.

Bridged connections — The number of bonded connections that are set up are listed here. To add a new bond connection, click the Add button and select the type of connection you want to create. The available options are Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and VLAN.

Aging time — Enter the Aging time duration in seconds.

Enable STP — Select this check box to enable the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) for your connection.

Priority — Enter the priority value.

Forward delay — Enter the forward delay duration in seconds.

Hello time — Enter the hello time duration in seconds.

Max age — Enter the value for the maximum age.

VLAN id — Enter the value for the VLAN id.

VLAN interface name — Type the name for your VLAN interface.

Cloned MAC address — Type the cloned MAC address.

MTU —Specifies the size (in bytes) of the largest protocol data unit that the protocol layer can pass onwards.