3Com 3C996B-T User Manual page 98

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4 Click OK. When a team has been correctly configured, one Virtual Team NIC driver
will be created for each configured team.
When you create a generic trunking team, you cannot select a Standby Member.
Standby Members work only with Load Balance and Failover Teams.
5 Configure the Team IP address if necessary. If other NICs in your system use TCP/IP
bindings, the TCP/IP Properties window will open.
6 To access the Internet Protocol Properties window, right-click the My Network Places
icon and select Properties.
7 When the Network and Dial-up Connections window opens, right-click any network
NIC. This displays the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties window.
8 Configure the IP address and any other necessary TCP/IP configuration for the team
and click OK when finished.
Adding a VLAN
You can add VLANs to a team. The concept behind this is that you are adding multiple
virtual NICs that are on different subnets. The benefit of this is that your server can have one
NIC that can belong to multiple subnets. With a VLAN you can couple the functionality of
load balancing for the Load Balance Members and you can employ a failover NIC.
You can define as many as 64 VLANs per team. VLANs can be created only when all
members are 3Com NICs. If you try to create a VLAN with a non-3Com NIC, an error
message displays.
To configure a new VLAN, follow these steps:
1 From the Load Balance/Virtual LAN window, select the team to which you want to
add a VLAN.
2 Enter a VLAN ID and VLAN Name, then click Add VLAN.
If you enter a VLAN name or ID and the name already exists, an Input Error message is
displayed.
The Untagged VLAN checkbox is exclusively used by the VLAN ID field. To use VLAN ID
zero, simply check this box.
3 When you have finished adding VLANs to this team, click OK. A new virtual NIC is
created for each VLAN.
NOTE: To maintain optimal NIC performance, your system should have 64 MB
of system memory for each eight VLANs created.
Deleting a VLAN
To delete a configured VLAN, follow these steps. If you delete a Team, any VLANs
configured for that team will also be deleted.
1 From the Load Balance/Virtual LAN window, select the VLAN you want to delete, and
click Remove VLAN. The selected VLAN will be deleted from the Load Balance/Virtual
Lan Configuration window.
2 When you have finished deleting VLANs, click OK to accept the changes.