Bumblebee Device Design Patterns

A Bumblebee device has two deployment patterns, Pass Through and Router Mode.

1. Pass Through Mode

In the Pass Through mode, the device behaves as Ethernet bridge or switch where the WAN interface and LAN interface share the same subnet. The Bumblebee devices takes up one IP address as its virtual managed interface from the subnet and leave the rest of the usable IPs to the customer.

Internet Edge

When Bumblebee device is deployed as the Internet edge for DIA circuit, it supports the design patterns as the follows.

3 Design Patterns in Pass Through Mode

Firewall HA Deployment

Below is a specific deployment diagram if you deploy two firewalls for HA.

Firewall HA Deployment Diagram

Local Network

In Pass Through mode, a Bumblebee device can be deployed anywhere inside the datacenter or local network for a continuous 24x7 performance monitoring and troubleshooting tool. It can placed inline or off line receiving packets via port mirroring and spam port.

Bumblebee device in SPAN port deployment

2. Router Mode

In Router Mode, a Bumblebee device acts as a router, it performs routing and NAT functions between its LAN and WAN port.

In Router Mode, the LAN interface (ETH1) is the default gateway for the LAN subnet.

Design Pattern in Router Mode