Dual Lan And Teaming Operation Guide - ASROCK EPC612D8A-TB User Manual

2.11 Dual LAN and Teaming Operation Guide

Dual LAN with Teaming enabled on this motherboard allows two single connections to act
as one single connection for twice the transmission bandwidth, making data transmission
more efective and improving the quality of transmission of distant images. Fault tolerance
on the dual LAN network prevents network downtime by transferring the workload from a
failed port to a working port.
he speed of transmission is subject to the actual network environment or status even with
Teaming enabled.
Before setting up Teaming, please make sure whether your Switch (or Router) supports
Teaming (IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation). You can specify a preferred adapter in Intel
PROSet. Under normal conditions, the Primary adapter handles all non-TCP/IP traic.
The Secondary adapter will receive fallback traffic if the primary fails. If the Preferred
Primary adapter fails, but is later restored to an active status, control is automatically
switched back to the Preferred Primary adapter.
Step 1
From Device Manager, open the properties of a team.
Step 2
Click the Settings tab.
Step 3
Click the Modify Team button.
Step 4
Select the adapter you want to be the primary adapter and click the Set Primary button.
If you do not specify a preferred primary adapter, the sotware will choose an adapter of
the highest capability (model and speed) to act as the default primary. If a failover occurs,
another adapter becomes the primary. he adapter will, however, rejoin the team as a non-
primary.
With the Intel i217LM LAN chip on board, the LAN Teaming function will be limited to 3
modes as Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) Enabled: Adapter Fault Tol-
erance (AFT), Switch Fault Tolerance (SFT), and Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB) teams..
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