Host Node

Landslide provides next hop capability on Host Node so that the network host and HA Node can be co-located on the same server during HA Node testing. (Availability depends on your system license.)

On the Emulator Configuration tab, select Host Interface and enter the required Ethernet configuration.

Tcl Parameter: HostNodeEn

The Physical interfaces for the Host Node differs from eth interface for Network Host.

If physical interfaces are the same than the traffic between HA Node and the Network host flows through the internal loopback and it cannot be observed (pcap files).
If the Host Nodes is not enabled, then the traffic between HA Node and Network host flows also through the internal loopback and it cannot be observed.

Ethernet Configuration

With an Ethernet Host Node, you can define:

The IP address and routing options... The IP Address will increment for each node.

Tcl Parameter: HostNodeAddr

The MAC Address to override the Hardware MAC address so the packets sent out of the interface will use the provisioned MAC address rather the Hardware MAC Address.
The Outbound Traffic Port to disable the normal routing function and to force packets out of the selected interface.

NOTE: When ARP Request is received by multiple eth-ports of the TS, the ARP Response sends back only through the port that is bound to the requested IP address.