ZyXEL Communications unified security gateway User Manual

Chapter 11 Interfaces

ZyWALL USG 20/20W User’s Guide

remove from a bridge interface when the underlying interface is added or 
removed.

This screen lists every bridge interface and virtual interface created on top of 
bridge interfaces. To access this screen, click Configuration > Network > 
Interface

 > Bridge.

Figure 178   Configuration > Network > Interface > Bridge      

Each field is described in the following table. 

Table 70   Configuration > Network > Interface > Bridge

Add

Click this to create a new entry.

Edit

Double-click an entry or select it and click Edit to open a screen 

where you can modify the entry’s settings. 

Remove

To remove an entry, select it and click Remove. The ZyWALL 

confirms you want to remove it before doing so.

Activate

To turn on an entry, select it and click Activate.

Inactivate

To turn off an entry, select it and click Inactivate.

Create Virtual 

Interface

To open the screen where you can create a virtual interface, select an 

interface and click Create Virtual Interface.

Object References Select an entry and click Object References to open a screen that 

shows which settings use the entry. See 

for an example.

#

This field is a sequential value, and it is not associated with any 

interface.

Status

This icon is lit when the entry is active and dimmed when the entry is 

inactive.

Name

This field displays the name of the interface.

IP Address

This field displays the current IP address of the interface. If the IP 

address is 0.0.0.0, the interface does not have an IP address yet.

This screen also shows whether the IP address is a static IP address 

(STATIC) or dynamically assigned (DHCP). IP addresses are always 

static in virtual interfaces.

Member

This field displays the Ethernet interfaces and VLAN interfaces in the 

bridge interface. It is blank for virtual interfaces.