<bond_id>

Bond identifier, an integer between 1 and 1024.

interface <slave_interface>

Slave interface name.

primary <slave_interface>

Sets the primary slave interface. This parameter is applicable to the active-backup mode only.

mii-interval <interval>

Frequency (in ms) that the system polls the Media Independent Interface (MII) to get status.

Valid values = 1-5000 ms. Default = 200 ms.

up-delay <value>
down-delay <value>

Wait time (in ms) before the system confirms that a slave interface is UP or DOWN.

Valid values = 1-5000 ms. Default = 200 ms.

arp-polling-interval <value>

Frequency of ARP requests sent to confirm that slave interface is UP.

Valid values = 1-5000 ms. Default = 200 ms.

mode <value>

Bond interface mode:

• active-backup - Selects the Primary slave interface as the Active slave interface. If the Primary slave interface goes down, it fails over to a different slave interface.
• xor - All UP slave interfaces are Active for Load Sharing. Traffic is assigned to Active interfaces based on the transmit hash policy (Layer2 or Layer3+4).
• 8023AD -Dynamically uses Active slave interfaces to share the traffic load based on the LACP protocol. This protocol uses full interface monitoring between the Security Gateway and a switch.
• abxor - Slave interfaces are assigned to sub-groups called bundles. Only one bundle is active at a time. All slave interfaces in the active bundle share the traffic load. The system assigns traffic to all interfaces in the active bundle based on the defined transmit hash policy.

Note - The Round-Robin option is not supported on the 61000/41000 Security System.

lacp-rate <value>

LACPDU packet transmission rate:

slow - Request LACPDU every 30 seconds
fast - Request LACPDU every 1 second.

This parameter is applicable to the 8023AD mode only.

xmit-hash-policy <value>

Methodology for slave interface selection based on the TCP/IP layer.

layer2 - Use XOR of hardware MAC addresses.
layer 3+4 - Use upper layer protocol information.

This parameter is applicable to the XOR and ABXOR modes only.

abxor-threshold <value>

Minimum number of slave interfaces that must be UP for a bundle to be Active.

Valid values = 1-8 interfaces. Default = 3 interfaces.

This parameter is applicable to the ABXOR mode only.