Dedicated network for AlwaysON replication traffic when a replica is a Failover Cluster Instance

Hi,
We are planning to setup dedicated network for our Availability Group replication traffic. We have a Failover Cluster Instance as the primary replica and a standalone SQL server instance as the secondary.
I understand that we will need to manually configure the database mirroring endpoints on both the replicas to listen on the specific IP.
But how do I configure the database mirroring endpoint on the Failover Cluster Instance ?
Please help.
Thanks and Regards,
Jisha

If you have a dedicated network for your Availability Group replication traffic between the FCI and the standalone instance, you need to identify if there will be other network services included in the mix. For example, your public network is already using
it's own DNS server by virtue of Active Directory integration. Your dedicated network for replication traffic may or may not have its own DNS server so configuring the endpoints would involve using either IP addresses like the one highlighted in the
blog post or using hosts file with fully qualified domain names so you can use them when creating the endpoints
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