Installing Advanced Server Features; Uninstalling Advanced Server Features; Configuring Advanced Server Features; Configuring Teaming - 3Com 3C996B-T User Manual

4 Windows 2000 Driver Setup

Installing Advanced Server Features

Uninstalling Advanced Server Features

Configuring Advanced Server Features

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NOTE: Advanced Server Features will only install in a system running a Windows
2000 Server operating system (Server, Advanced Server, or Datacenter Server).
1 Start Windows 2000 Server and log in. You must have Network Administrator
privileges to install the driver software.
2 Insert the 3Com Installation CD into the CD-ROM drive.
3 If the main menu appears, click Exit.
4 Double-click My Computer icon.
5 Right-click CD-ROM drive, and select Explore. Do not select Autoplay.
6 Double-click Windows 2000 directory on the 3Com Installation CD.
7 Double-click BcmServ directory.
8 Double-click Baspinst.exe to install Advanced Server Features.
This will install the Advanced Server Features software and display a window.
From this menu, you can create a team. See "Creating a Team and Assigning NICs"
on page 31, or click OK to complete installation.
1 Start Windows 2000 system and log in. You must have Network Administrator
privileges to uninstall the driver software.
2 Select Start/Settings/Control Panel/Network and Dial-up Connections.
3 Right-click any NIC and select Properties.
4 Click Broadcom Advanced Server Features program driver, and then click Uninstall.
5 A Warning screen appears. Click Yes to continue.
6 At the prompt, click Yes to restart.
The Advanced Server Features provides load balancing, failover, and VLAN configuration
by creating teams (virtual NICs) that consist of multiple NICs.

Configuring Teaming

NOTE: All teaming configurations can be optionally performed using the 3Com
Management Programs. Refer to "3Com Management Programs" on page 85 for
additional information.
Any available NIC can be configured as part of a team. Teaming is a method of grouping
multiple NICs to a virtual NIC (bundling multiple NICs to look like a single NIC). The benefit
of this approach is load balancing.
By selecting each of the available NICs, move each of them over to the Load Balance
Members column. This "team" now appears as one NIC. Each member in the Load
Balance Member list shares the traffic burden of all its members.