Dual Lan And Teaming Operation Guide - ASROCK GENOAD8X-2T/BCM User Manual

2.11 Dual LAN and Teaming Operation Guide

Dual LAN with Teaming enabled on this motherboard allows two single connections to act
as one single connection for twice the transmission bandwidth, making data transmission
more effective and improving the quality of transmission of distant images. Fault tolerance
on the dual LAN network prevents network downtime by transferring the workload from a
failed port to a working port.
The speed of transmission is subject to the actual network environment or status even with
Teaming enabled.
Before setting up Teaming, please make sure whether the Switch (or Router) supports
Teaming (IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation). specify a preferred adapter in Intel PROSet.
Under normal conditions, the Primary adapter handles all non-TCP/IP traffic. The
Secondary adapter will receive fallback traffic if the primary fails. If the Preferred Primary
adapter fails, but is later restored to an active status, control is automatically switched back
to the Preferred Primary adapter.
Step 1
From Device Manager, open the properties of a team.
Step 2
Click the Settings tab.
Step 3
Click the Modify Team button.
Step 4
Select the adapter that wants to be the primary adapter and click the Set Primary button.
The software will choose an adapter of the highest capability (model and speed) to act as
the default primary upon not specify a preferred primary adapter. If a failover occurs,
another adapter becomes the primary. The adapter will, however, rejoin the team as a non-
primary.
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