Adapter Teaming Setting; About Team Type; About Livelink - NEC N8104-128 Installation Manual

2.5. Adapter teaming setting

2.5.1.

About Team Type

You can create four types of load balance teams:
Smart Load Balance™ and Failover (Without standby adapter)
All adapters composes in this team will participates to the communication.
When interference is generated, other adapters that compose the team will continue
communicating.
When the adapter that has caused interference recovers, it returns to the team, and it
participates in the communication again.
Smart Load Balancing™ (Auto-Failback Disable) (With standby adapters)
All adapters composes in this team accept standby member will participates to the
communication.
When interference is generated, standby members that compose the team will continue
communicating.
When the adapter that has caused interference recovers, it returns to the team, and continue
with standby status.
2.5.2.

About LiveLink™

LiveLink™ is a feature of BASP (Broadcom Advanced Server Program, BASP is the Broadcom
teaming software for the Windows family of operating systems.) that is available only for the Smart
Load Balancing™ 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 LiveLink™. This function is accomplished
though the teaming software. The teaming software periodically probes (issues a link packet from each
team member) one or more specified target network device(s). The probe target(s) responds when it
receives the link packet. If a team member does not detect the response within a specified amount of
time, this indicates that the link has been lost, and the teaming software discontinues passing traffic
through that team member. Later, if that team member begins to detect a response from a probe target,
this indicates that the link has been restored, and the teaming software automatically resumes passing
traffic through that team member. LiveLink™ works only with TCP/IP
The setting of LiveLink™ is indispensable on adapter teaming. Without
LiveLink™ adapter teaming is not supported.
For remove an adapter teaming, refer to "2.5.4 Remove Team".
Once an adapter teaming is configured, before replace Mother board or NIC,
removed the adapter teaming first.
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April 2011 (3rd Edition)
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