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Port Redundancy

Port Redundancy provides a simple method for configuring a redundant port for a physical Ethernet port. This is a valuable feature, particularly in high-end deployments, to protect against switch failures being a single point of failure.

When the primary interface is active, it processes all traffic to and from the interface. If the primary interface goes down, the secondary interface takes over all outgoing and incoming traffic. The secondary interface assumes the MAC address of the primary interface and sends the appropriate gratuitous ARP on a failover event. When the primary interface comes up again, it resumes responsibility for all traffic handling duties from the secondary interface.

In a typical Port Redundancy configuration, the primary and secondary interfaces are connected to different switches. This provides for a failover path in case the primary switch goes down. Both switches must be on the same Ethernet domain. Port Redundancy can also be configured with both interfaces connected to the same switch.

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