Highly-available deployment, Passive deployment – Force10 Networks PSeries 100-00055-01 User Manual

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P-Series Installation and Operation Guide, version 2.3.1.2

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Highly-available Deployment

Use optical bypass switches with the P-Series for a highly-available, redundant deployment, as shown in

Figure 6

. Both the appliances have the same configuration so that in the event of a power failure on one

device, the other continues to operate, and the detection engine remains intact. In the event that both
devices experience a power failure, the traffic continues to flow through the bypass switches.

Figure 6

Optical Bypass

10-Gigabit

P0

P1

P-Series P10

10-Gigabit

P0

P1

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Highly-available Redundant Deployment

Passive Deployment

Enable passive mode (see

Command Line Reference on page 79

) with fiber taps in line for IDS

deployments.

•

Send traffic from one side of the tap to port P0 and traffic from the other side to port P1, as shown in

Figure 7

.

•

Aggregate traffic from both sides of the link to one port, as shown in

Figure 8

.

•

Aggregate traffic from both sides of the link to one port using a SPAN port, as shown in

Figure 9

.

Figure 7

Network Tap

P-Series P10

fn90032mp

P0

P1

10-Gigabit

10-Gigabit

Passive Deployment using a Network Tap

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