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Load Balancing
The Load Balancing teaming option provides four Load Balancing Control
options.
Figure 6-21. Load Balancing Control teaming option
Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB)—Creates a team of NICs to increase
a server transmission throughput. Works with any 100Base-TX or
Gigabit switch. With ALB, you can group NICs into teams to provide a
single, virtual NIC with increased transmission bandwidth. To use ALB,
you must link at least two teamed Compaq NICs in the server to the
same network switch.
Cisco Fast EtherChannel (FEC)—This feature creates a team of NICs
to increase transmission and reception throughput. Unlike ALB, Cisco
FEC can be configured to increase both transmission and reception
channels between the server and switch. For example, a Cisco FEC team
containing four Compaq Fast Ethernet NICs configured for full-duplex
operation provides an aggregate maximum transmit rate of 400
megabytes per second (Mbps) and an aggregate maximum receive rate
of 400 Mbps resulting in a total bandwidth of 800 Mbps.