Hot Standby; Configuring Vlans - Dell Broadcom NetXtreme Family of Adapters User Manual

mode for all adapters in the team. Note that at least one side (system or switch) must be in LACP active mode for it to work.
Example:
LOAD BASP.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_II NAME=BASP_1_EII VSLOT=1 MODE=802.3AD LACP=PASSIVE
Loading Frame Types
After one or more adapters are bound to a virtual adapter, additional frame types can only be loaded in the virtual adapter if
the corresponding frame types are also loaded in the bound adapters. For example, ETHERNET_802.2 can be loaded in BASP
VSLOT 1 if ETHERNET_802.2 is loaded for the B57 driver in SLOT 1 and 2 in the example below. Similarly, a virtual adapter
can only be bound to a physical adapter if the physical adapter has all the frame types loaded in the virtual adapter.
Example:
LOAD ODINEB.NLM
LOAD BASP.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_802.2 NAME=BASP_1_E82 VSLOT=1
LOAD B57.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_802.2 NAME=B57_1_E82 SLOT=1
LOAD B57.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_802.2 NAME=B57_2_E82 SLOT=2

Hot Standby

For a Smart Load Balancing™ (SLB) type of team, only one adapter can be designated as a hot standby member. Use the
keyword standby in the BASP bind command to bind an adapter as a hot standby member.
Example:
BASP BIND BASP_1_EII B57_1_EII
BASP BIND BASP_1_EII B57_2_EII STANDBY
In the above example, B57_1_EII and B57_2_EII are bound as primary and hot standby members, respectively. Note that a
standby member can be used only on a Smart Load Balancing type of team.
NOTE: No traffic is passed to the standby member until the primary member fails

Configuring VLANs

NOTES:
VLANs are not supported on non-Broadcom adapters. VLANs are supported on the Alteon adapters if the ALT.LAN
driver provided by Broadcom is used. If a non-Broadcom adapter is a member of a failover team, VLANs are not
supported for that team.
To avoid failover problems when using BASP, make sure that the spanning tree is disabled on the switch to
which the network adapter is connected.
To add VLANs to a team, do the following:
1. Load the BASP.LAN driver with the all necessary frame types and specify the VLAN ID for each frame type. You can
specify a maximum of 64 VLAN IDs and each VLAN ID can be loaded up to four times with four different frame types.
Example: (VLAN ID 2 for Ethernet II)
LOAD BASP.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_II NAME=BASP_1_V2_EII VSLOT=1 VLAN=2
NOTE: When adding 64 VLANs, the 64th VLAN must have a VLAN ID of 0 (63 VLANs are tagged and 1 VLAN is
untagged)
2. Load the network drivers for the adapters on the team with all the frame types specified in step 1. Note that the one or
more VLAN IDs specified in step 1 do not have to be specified when loading the network drivers. Each frame type
loaded in step 1 needs to be loaded only once for each network driver, even if it is loaded multiple times with different
VLAN IDs in step 1. Only Broadcom and Alteon NIC adapters can be used. The ALT.LAN driver must be version 2.05b or
later (released by Broadcom) and must include the keyword FORVLANS.
Example: (Broadcom adapters)
LOAD ODINEB.NLM
LOAD B57.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_II NAME=B57_1_EII SLOT=1
LOAD B57.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_II NAME=B57_2_EII SLOT=2
Example: (Alteon adapters)