Nokia IPSO 4.0 manual Configuring Interfaces, Interface Overview

2 Configuring Interfaces

This chapter describes configuring and monitoring the various types of interfaces supported by Nokia IP security platforms, aggregating Ethernet ports, configuring GRE and DVMRP tunnels, using transparent mode to allow your IPSO appliance to behave like a Layer 2 device, and other topics related to physical and logical interfaces.

Interface Overview

Nokia IPSO support the following interface types.

„Ethernet/Fast Ethernet

„Gigabit Ethernet

„FDDI

„ATM (RFC1483 PVCs only)

„Serial (V.35 and X.21) running PPP, point-to-point Frame Relay, or Cisco HDLC

„T1/E1 running PPP, Frame Relay, or Cisco HDLC

„HSSI running PPP, point-to-point Frame Relay, or Cisco HDLC

„VPN Tunneling

„Token Ring

„Unnumbered Interface

„ISDN

Note

For information on what types of interfaces your appliance model supports, see your hardware installation guide.

You can configure these interfaces with IP addresses. You also can assign additional IP addresses to the loopback, FDDI, and Ethernet interfaces. All interface types support IP multicast.

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