In your enterprise environment, you might have requirements for increased reliability for network links. Deep Discovery Web Inspector can provide this increased reliability by supporting LACP link aggregation, which provides increased reliability through link redundancy. In addition, LACP supports two-way load balancing.
  • For environments where you want to enable LACP:
    • When LACP is enabled, Deep Discovery Web Inspector automatically creates a two-port aggregate for data ingress and a two-port aggregate for data egress on the appliance.
    • You can implement LACP under Transparent Bridge mode and Transparent HA mode.
  • LACP is available only on appliances equipped with two bypass cards.
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Transparent Bridge mode with LACP
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Transparent HA mode with LACP
Important
Important
  • Deep Discovery Web Inspector only supports LACP passive mode; therefore, LACP on the peer device must work under active mode.
  • Deep Discovery Web Inspector does not support dynamic LACP mode link aggregation.
  • LACP cannot be enabled with Multi-Bridge deployments (a variation of Transparent Bridge mode).
For more, see How LACP Works With Deep Discovery Web Inspector.
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