Tripp Lite B098016V Owners Manual for B093- B097- and B098-Series Console Serv - Page 30

3. System Configuration 3.6.4 Aggregating the Network Ports By default, the console server's Management LAN network ports can only be accessed using SSH tunneling /port forwarding or by establishing an IPsec VPN tunnel to the console server. However, all wired network ports on the console servers can be aggregated by being bridged or bonded. By default, Interface Aggregation is disabled on the System: IP General Settings menu. Select Bridge Interfaces or Bond Interfaces • When bridging is enabled, network traffic is forwarded across all Ethernet ports with no firewall restrictions. All the Ethernet ports are transparently connected at the data link layer (layer 2), so they do retain their unique MAC addresses. • With bonding, the network traffic is carried between the ports but they present with one MAC address. • Both modes remove all Management LAN Interface and Out-of-Band/Failover Interface functions and disable the DHCP Server. In aggregation mode, all Ethernet ports are configured collectively using the Network Interface menu. 3.6.5 Wi-Fi Wireless LAN The B098 has an internal 802.11 Wi-Fi adapter and comes with an external Wi-Fi antenna. The Wi-Fi can be configured as a Wi-Fi Wireless Access Point (WAP) or as a Wi-Fi client. The built-in Wi-Fi is inactive by default. If you wish to use the Wi-Fi facility you will need to attach the Wi-Fi antenna (and any auxiliary Wi-Fi antenna you may have ordered). Other models can be fitted externally with an external 802.11 wireless USB dongle. The wireless device will then be autodetected on power-up. You will be presented with a Wireless LAN Interface menu in the System: IP menu. 30