Interface Bonding In SPLAT

The ClusterXL documentation in Checkpoint covers all the necessary things for HA link redundancy. But it does not cover interface redundancy for a standalone installation.
Interface Bonding is supported in almost all Linux/Unix distributions. SPLAT also supports interface bonding. You can configure interface bonding via sysconfig command. In NGX releases prior to R70 (including R70) does not provide the options for "High Availability" and "Load Balancing" when you create Bond interfaces.
But in R70.30 it includes this feature. So when you create a bond interface you are given the option to create the bond to support either HA or Load Balancing.
Configuring Interface bonding is straightforward.

1) First you have to make sure there are no IP addresses configured for the physical interfaces that are going t obe bonded. You can remove the IP addresses by sysconfig command.

• Choose 5 - Network Connections
• Choose 2 - Configure Connection
• Select the appropriate interface
• Choose 3 - Remove IP address

2) After you have removed all the IP addresses. Select Add new connections in Network Connections configuration menu

3) Select Bond Interface

4) Choose an interface to be slave

5) Choose another interface to be slave

6) After you have done selecting interfaces enter 'n' go to next.

7) Select "1" for High Availability, or select "2" for Load Sharing.

8) If you select Load Balancing you are given two other interfaces. Here I will discuss about HA only.

9) When you select HA you are given two options either to select default advanced parameters or to customize advanced parameters..

10) Selecting default advanced parameters, you will be asked whether you want to select a primary slave interface or not. If you select 'y' then you have to select a primary interface in the bond.

11) Then you will be asked to configure the IP address and the subnetmask for the interface.

The configurations in the SmartDashboard will be the same as you are doing for a normal interface.