Configuring Livelink For A Smart Load Balancing And Failover And Slb (Auto-Fallback Disable) Team - Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57 Series User Manual

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Configuring LiveLink for a Smart Load Balancing and Failover and SLB
(Auto-Fallback Disable) Team
LiveLink is a feature of BASP that is available for the Smart Load Balancing (SLB) and SLB (Auto-Fallback
Disable) type of teaming. The purpose of LiveLink is to detect link loss beyond the switch and to route traffic only
through team members that have a live link.
Read the following notes before you attempt to configure LiveLink.
Notes:
• Before you begin configuring LiveLink™, review the description of LiveLink. Also verify that each
probe target you plan to specify is available and working. If the IP address of the probe target
changes for any reason, LiveLink must be reconfigured. If the MAC address of the probe target
changes for any reason, you must restart the team (see "Troubleshooting").
• A probe target must be on the same subnet as the team, have a valid (not a broadcast, multicast,
or unicast), statically-assigned IP address, and be highly available (always on).
• To ensure network connectivity to the probe target, ping the probe target from the team.
• You can specify up to four probe targets.
• The IP address assigned to either a probe target or team member cannot have a zero as the first
or last octet.
To configure LiveLink
1. From the Teams menu, select Edit Team.
2. Click Expert Mode (to configure LiveLink using the Teaming Wizard, see
Wizard).
3. In the Manage Members window, click the Edit Team tab.
4. Select Enable LiveLink. The LiveLink Configuration options appear below.
5. It is recommended to accept the default values for Probe interval (the number of seconds between each
retransmission of a link packet to the probe target) and Probe maximum retries (the number of
consecutively missed responses from a probe target before a failover is triggered). To specify different
values, click the desired probe interval in the Probe interval (seconds) list and click the desired maximum
number of probe retries in the Probe maximum retries list.
6. Set the Probe VLAN ID to correspond with the VLAN where the probe target(s) resides. This will apply the
appropriate VLAN tag to the link packet based on the shared configuration of the attached switch port(s).
Note: Each LiveLink enabled team can only communicate with Probe Targets on a single VLAN. Also,
VLAN ID 0 is equivalent to an untagged network.
7. Select Probe Target 1 and type the target IP address for one or all probe targets.
Note: Only the first probe target is required. You can specify up to 3 additional probe targets to serve
as backups by assigning IP addresses to the other probe targets.
8. Select one of the listed team members and type the member IP address.
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