Control | Description |
Enable Connection Forwarding | Enables connection forwarding by default on all neighbors added to the peer list. The default value is 7850. |
Port | Specify the port number to use as the default for the neighbor SteelHead in-path port. The default value is 7850. |
Keep-Alive Interval | Specify the number of seconds to use as the default interval for ping commands between neighbor SteelHeads. The default value is 1 second. |
Keep-Alive Count | Specify the number of tries to use as the default number of failed ping attempts before an appliance terminates a connection with a neighbor. The default value is 3. |
In-Path Neighbor Failure | Uses the neighbor appliance to optimize new connections if the appliance fails. For in-path deployments that use connection forwarding with WCCP, enabling this option ensures that if one appliance fails, the neighbor appliance continues to optimize new connections. For in-path deployments that use connection forwarding without WCCP, enabling this option ensures that a SteelHead attempts to optimize new connections that are symmetrically routed, even after all of the neighbor SteelHeads on another network path failed. New asymmetrically routed connections are not optimized but passed through. |
Multiple Interface Support | Enables high availability on SteelHeads configured with multiple in-path interfaces and using connection forwarding with another multiport SteelHead. This option makes all neighbor in-path interface IP addresses visible to each peer to ensure proper neighbor communication if the in-path0_0 interface fails. RiOS 6.5 and later require connection forwarding in a WCCP cluster. You must enable multiple interface support for a connection-forwarding neighbor to work with IPv6. |
Control | Description |
+ Add a New Neighbor | Displays the controls to add a new neighbor. |
Hostname | Specify a hostname. |
In-Path IP Address | Specify the in-path IP address for the neighbor SteelHead. When you define a neighbor, you must specify the appliance in-path IP address, not the primary IP address. To use connection forwarding with IPv6, both SteelHeads must be running RiOS 8.5 or later and you must enable multiple interface support. |
Port | Specify the in-path port for the neighbor SteelHead. The default port is 7850. |
Additional IP Addresses | Adds a neighbor SteelHead to the neighbor list. |
Add | Adds a new neighbor. |
Remove Selected | Select the check box next to the name and click Remove Selected. |