Port Bonding Settings - D-Link ShareCenter DNS-340L User Manual

Section 4 - Configuration
Port Bonding improves performance and reliability and makes use of the two LAN cards present in the DNS-340L. By
connecting two cables connected to your router simultaneously the DNS-340L can be set to bond both connections to
either distribute the bandwidth load, or have one LAN port serve as a backup to the main LAN port. To enable Port Bonding
select the Enable option, and choose either Round Robin, Active Backup, Balance-XOR, Broadcast, 802.3ad, Adaptive
Transmit Load Balancing, or Adaptive Load Balancing from the option modes. The different modes are explained below;
Round Robin: This a load balancing technique that distributes load in a circular fashion,
thereby creating an evenly distributed load.
Active Backup: Uses only one active slave to transmit packets.
Balance-XOR: This mode balances outgoing traffic across the active ports based on
hashed protocol header information and accepts incoming traffic from
any active port.
Broadcast: When ports are configured with broadcast mode, all slave ports transmits
the same packets to the destination that way providing fault tolerance.
802.3ad:
Creates aggregation groups that share the same speed and duplex
settings. It is also called Link Aggregation Control Protocol. And it requires
special switch support.
Adaptive
Channel bonding that does not require any special switch support.
Transmit Load
Balancing:
Adaptive Load
Includes adaptive transmit load balancing plus receive load balancing
Balancing:
for IPV4 traffic and does not require any special switch support.
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