Avaya S8500 manual Configuring the NIC

Configuring the NIC

2. Click Continue until you get to the "Specify how you want to use this Wizard" page.

3.Select Configure Individual Services and click Continue.

4.On the menu on the left, click Set Identities

5.Use the drop-down menus to assign the Ethernet port functions. The following table shows the default assignments for three S8500 configurations:

Table 6: Recommended port assignments for S8500B and S8500C1

Functionality	S8500B with	S8500B without	S8500C
	dual NIC	dual NIC
Control Network A	Ethernet 0	Ethernet 0	Ethernet 0
Services laptop computer	Ethernet 1	Ethernet 1	Ethernet 1
Internal SAMP	Ethernet 4	Ethernet 2	Ethernet 2
Control Network B —	Ethernet 2	Unused	Ethernet 3
ESS for S87xx system with
duplicated control
Corporate LAN —	Ethernet 3	NA	Ethernet 4
Private control network
Corporate LAN —	Ethernet 0	Ethernet 0	Ethernet 0
Shared control network

1.These port assignments are recommended when using the Set Identities web page in the Maintenance Web Interface. The settings entered on this web page might not correspond to the setting reported for the CLI ifconfig command.

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