HotBrick VPN 800/8 F - Manual (Page 22)

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Transparant bridge option
Bridge Mode – If set to Enable, this WAN port does not use NAT or the Load Balance function
when both the LAN and WAN have real IP addresses on the same network segment.
NetBIOS Broadcast – This function allows you to access files through Microsoft Network
Neighborhood if it is enabled.
Traffic Management
Strict Binding: traffic from bridged hosts (eg. transparent to WAN 1) can only go
through that specified WAN(eg. WAN 1) interface.
Loose Binding: Traffic from bridge hosts (eg. transparent to WAN 1) can go
thru the alternative WAN (eg.WAN 2) interface when bind interface (eg. WAN 1) is
down, it acts like a fail over mechanism for transparent bridge mode.
Load Balancing: Traffic from bridge hosts (eg. transparent to WAN 1) can go thru either
WAN (eg. WAN 1 or WAN 2) interface based on loading mechanism specified in the load balance
section, it's acting like as a load balancing mechanism for transparent bridge mode.
ARP Table – the ARP table is used by the device to determine the bridge hosts’ location (eg.
inside/outside WAN and which WAN). Its size can be adjusted if needed. View ARP
Tables displays ON/OFF for bridge mode on each WAN port. Clear ARP Tables disables
bridge mode on all WAN ports.
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