Connectivity Requirements

The appliances have one management interface (Admin) and two data plane interfaces (Port1, Port2).
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The best practice is to connect to separate external bridges in the host.
The data plane interfaces have additional requirements on the bridges to which they connect:
  • The bridge must accept promiscuous mode connections.
  • The bridge must accept any VLAN tag traffic and forward it without changing or removing the VLAN tags.
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The best practice is to configure the necessary bridges before installing the appliance.

For more information, see Configure Bridges for the Virtual Appliance for instructions on how to create and configure bridges that can be used by the Virtual Appliance's data plane ports.

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