Redundant Network Adapter - Barco Argus X Terminal User Manual

6.2.7 Redundant network adapter

To obtain a redundant network connection to the LAN the A
work cards, that form an AFT (Adapter Fault Tolerance) team. A team consists of two or more network cards of
the same type. At least one of the cards must be a server adapter. The other ones can be server or desktop
adapters. Nevertheless we recommend to use for a redundant network adapter exclusively server adapters to
achieve an easy spare part handling. A team has an active (primary) adapter and one or more secondary adapt-
ers. The primary adapter is the network card that is used by default for data transfer. One of the secondary
adapters is only used if a fault occurs that prevents data transfer via the primary adapter. Whether the primary
adapter is a server adapter or not is of no importance but all cards of a team must be either exclusive
10/100 Mbps network cards or exclusive 10/100/1000 Mbps network cards.
Configuration of an AFT team
To form a team of network cards the script config can be used. Therefore log in as root and change to the di-
rectory /opt/MMT2686/ians. The factory set password for root is barco.
eos login: root
Password: barco
eos:/root # cd /opt/MMT2686/ians/
Start the script by entering ./config:
eos:/root # ./config
The script will prompt you to select the network cards that are part of the team. The network cards are named
eth0, eth1, etc. This numbering follows the reverse order of the PCI slots in which the cards are inserted,
please refer also to section
the network cards by means of the procfg utility, see section
Below you can read through a typical course of the configuration script expanded with comments giving more
details:
**********************************************************************
*
* BARCO iANS configuration script
* ===============================
* The configuration process will now ask you to enter your
* selection for the Intel(R) Advanced Network Services (iANS)
*
**********************************************************************
Do You want to continue([Y]/n): y
First enter y to start with the configuration. In the following the script presents you a list with the available net-
work cards. You are prompted to select the network cards that form one team. The AFT team of A
bteam0. First enter the number of the network card that shall be the primary adapter. Anew a list is shown but
without the already selected card. Enter the number of the next member of the team. When all team members
are selected enter 0 to continue with the configuration.
Select members for team bteam0:
0. done
1. eth0 Intel(R) PRO/100 S Server Adapter
2. eth1 Intel(R) PRO/100 S Desktop Adapter
3. eth2 Intel(R) PRO/100 S Desktop Adapter
1
Select members for team bteam0:
0. done
1. eth1 Intel(R) PRO/100 S Desktop Adapter
2. eth2 Intel(R) PRO/100 S Desktop Adapter
1
Select members for team bteam0:
0. done
1. eth2 Intel(R) PRO/100 S Desktop Adapter
0
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3.2.12 Network. Nevertheless it might be more convenient to first check the names of
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4.8.7 Network reporting utility
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6. Advanced configuration
Whether the primary
(procfg).
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