Chapter 10 Interface

 

Table 48 Network > Interface > Status (continued)

 

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

Expand/Close

Click this button to show or hide statistics for all the virtual interfaces on top of the

 

 

Ethernet interfaces.

 

 

 

 

Name

This field displays the name of each interface. If there is a Expand icon (plus-sign)

 

 

next to the name, click this to look at the statistics for virtual interfaces on top of this

 

 

interface.

 

 

 

 

Status

This field displays the current status of the interface.

 

 

Down - The interface is not connected.

 

 

Speed / Duplex - The interface is connected. This field displays the port speed and

 

 

duplex setting (Full or Half).

 

TxPkts

This field displays the number of packets transmitted from the ZyWALL on the

 

 

interface since it was last connected.

 

 

 

 

RxPkts

This field displays the number of packets received by the ZyWALL on the interface

 

 

since it was last connected.

 

 

 

 

Collision

This field displays the number of collisions on the interface since it was last

 

 

connected.

 

 

 

 

Tx B/s

This field displays the transmission speed, in bytes per second, on the interface in

 

 

the one-second interval before the screen updated.

 

 

 

 

Rx B/s

This field displays the reception speed, in bytes per second, on the interface in the

 

 

one-second interval before the screen updated.

 

 

 

10.3 The Port Role Screen

To access this screen, click Network > Interface > Port Role. Use the Port Role screen to set the ZyWALL’s flexible ports as part of the lan1, ext-wlan or dmz interfaces. This creates a hardware connection between the physical ports at the layer-2 (data link, MAC address) level. This provides wire-speed throughput but no security.

Not the following if you are configuring from a computer connected to a lan1, ext-wlan, or dmz port and change the port's role:

1A port's IP address varies as its role changes, make sure your computer's IP address is in the same subnet as the ZyWALL's lan1, ext-wlan, or dmz IP address.

2Use the appropriate lan1, ext-wlan, or dmz IP address to access the ZyWALL.

Figure 148 Network > Interface > Port Role

Physical Ports

Interfaces

 

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