Netgear RD5D (ReadyDATA Disk Packs) – ReadyDATA Disk Packs (SATA/NL-SAS/SAS/SSD) Software Guide

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The ReadyDATA provides two physical 1 Gb Ethernet interfaces and two physical 10 Gb 
Ethernet interfaces. The Ethernet interfaces can be used independently as individual 
interfaces or combined in a channel-bonded configuration using LACP and hash types 2 
through 4. Channel bonding provides redundancy or increased throughput.

You can create and attach virtual NICs (VNICs) to individual and bonded interfaces. The 
primary benefit of virtual networking is that it allows the ReadyDATA to service many 
separate networks and to control how much bandwidth is used for each storage-related task. 

For each VNIC, you can configure the following settings:

VLAN membership

Bandwidth limits

IPv4 or IPv6 settings

DNS servers

The following figure illustrates the use of VNICs in a ReadyDATA network configuration. 
(Throttle refers to the bandwidth limit.)