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  • Page 1 Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide 613-001247 Rev. A...
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  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Warranty..............................10 Management Software Updates......................... 10 Chapter 1: Starting and Using BACS 3 ......................11 Starting Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 ....................12 Using Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 ..................... 14 Using the Interface ............................. 14 Displaying Device Management Information....................14 Configuring BACS User Interface Options ....................
  • Page 4 Contents...
  • Page 5 Figures Figure 1: Device Management Page ............................15 Figure 2: By Connection Page..............................15 Figure 3: Team Management Page ............................16 Figure 4: Device Management By Type Page ........................18 Figure 5: Driver Information Page............................20 Figure 6: Resources Page ..............................21 Figure 7: Hardware Information Page...........................23 Figure 8: Network Test Page ..............................25 Figure 9: Diagnostic Tests Page............................26 Figure 10: Cable Analysis Page ............................29...
  • Page 6 Figures...

  • Page 7: Preface

    This guide contains instructions on how to install and use the Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 for Ethernet Network adapters. The Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 (BACS 3) is an integrated utility that provides useful information about each network adapter that is installed in your system.

  • Page 8: Safety Symbols Used In This Document

    Preface Safety Symbols Used in this Document This document uses the safety symbols defined in Table 1. Table 1. Safety Symbols Symbol Meaning Description Caution Performing or omitting a specific action may result in equipment damage or loss of data. Warning Performing or omitting a specific action may result in electrical shock.

  • Page 9: Where To Find Web-Based Guides

    Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide Where to Find Web-based Guides The installation and user guides for all Allied Telesis products are available in portable document format (PDF) on our web site at www.alliedtelesis.com/support/software. You can view the documents...

  • Page 10: Contacting Allied Telesis

    Allied Telesis FTP server: ftp://ftp.alliedtelesis.com  If you prefer to download new software from the Allied Telesis FTP server from your workstation’s command prompt, you will need FTP client software and you must log in to the server. Enter “anonymous” for the user...

  • Page 11: Chapter 1: Starting And Using Bacs 3

    .NET Framework versions for BACS3. In addition, this chapter describes how to set the BACs software. This chapter contains the following sections: “Starting Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3” on page 12  “Using Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3” on page 14 ...

  • Page 12: Starting Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3

    Chapter 1: Starting and Using BACS 3 Starting Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 includes the runtime and associated files needed to run BACS 3, and must be installed on your system in order for BACS 3 to operate. For information on the minimum and recommended .NET Framework versions for your operating system, see Table 1.
  • Page 13 Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide Table 1. .NET Framework Versions for BACS 3 (Continued) Minimum Required Recommended Operating System Version How to Obtain Version How to Obtain Windows Vista .NET 2.0 Included in .NET .NET 2.0 SP1 Download 3.0 which is...

  • Page 14: Using Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3

    Chapter 1: Starting and Using BACS 3 Using Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 To start BACS 3, click Broadcom Control Suite 3 in the Control Panel. Click the tab that provides the information of interest such as to perform a desired test, diagnostic, analysis, or set adapter properties.

  • Page 15: Figure 1: Device Management Page

    Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide Figure 1. Device Management Page To list items in Device Management by connection, do the following: At the top of the Device Management pane, click By Connection. The  By Connection Page is displayed. See Figure 2 on page 15.

  • Page 16: Figure 3: Team Management Page

    Chapter 1: Starting and Using BACS 3 Device Icons The icon next to each device in the Device Management pane shows its status. An icon next to a device name that appears normal means the device is connected and working. Two additional states may occur: X.

  • Page 17: Configuring Bacs User Interface Options

    Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide Configuring This section describes how to enable and disable the BACS Tray icon. After the program is installed, BACS 3 places an icon in the Windows BACS User taskbar. Use the Options window to turn this icon on or off.

  • Page 18: Figure 4: Device Management By Type Page

    Information about Allied Telesis or Broadcom-based network adapters may be more comprehensive than information about network adapters made by other vendors. Note Some information may not be available for all Allied Telesis or Broadcom-based network adapters. Figure 4. Device Management By Type Page MAC Address A physical MAC (media access control) address that is assigned to the adapter by the manufacturer.
  • Page 19 Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide Link Status The Link Status indicates the status of the network link. There are two states: Up. A link is established.  Down. A link is not established.  Duplex The adapter is operating in the indicated duplex mode.

  • Page 20: Viewing Driver Information

    Chapter 1: Starting and Using BACS 3 Viewing Driver The Driver Information section of the Information tab displays data about the driver for the selected network adapter. Information To view Driver Information for any installed network adapter, click the name of the adapter listed in the Device Management pane, then click the Information tab.

  • Page 21: Displaying Resource Information

    From the Context View tab on the right side of the window, select Information, and then select Resources. Note Some information may not be available for all Allied Telesis or Broadcom-based network adapters. Figure 6. Resources Page Bus Type...
  • Page 22 Chapter 1: Starting and Using BACS 3 Slot No Indicates the slot number on the system board occupied by the adapter. This item is not available for PCI Express type adapters. Bus Speed (MHz) Indicates the bus clock signal frequency used by the adapter. This item is not available for PCI Express type adapters.

  • Page 23: Figure 7: Hardware Information Page

     from the Context View tab on the right side of the window, select Information and Hardware. Note Some information may not be available for all Allied Telesis or Broadcom-based network adapters. Figure 7. Hardware Information Page ASIC Version Indicates the chip version of the Broadcom adapter. This information is not available for adapters made by other vendors.

  • Page 24: Testing The Network

    Chapter 1: Starting and Using BACS 3 Subsystem Vendor ID Indicates the subsystem vendor ID. Subsystem ID Indicates the subsystem ID. Testing the The Network Test option on the Diagnostics tab lets you verify IP network connectivity. This test verifies if the driver is installed correctly and Network tests connectivity to a gateway or other specified IP address on the same subnet.

  • Page 25: Running Diagnostic Tests

    Figure 8. Network Test Page Running The Diagnostic Tests option on the Diagnostics tab lets you check the state of the physical components on a Allied Telesis or Broadcom-based Diagnostic Tests network adapter. You can trigger the tests manually, or choose to have BACS 3 continuously perform them.

  • Page 26: Figure 9: Diagnostic Tests Page

    Chapter 1: Starting and Using BACS 3 3. From the Select a test to run list, select Diagnostic Tests. If the Diagnostic Tests option is not available, then from the Context View tab on the right side of the window, select Diagnostics and then select Diagnostic Tests.
  • Page 27 Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide 7. In the error message window that warns of the network connection being temporarily interrupted, click Yes. The diagnostic tests run continuously and the Status field for each test displays the accumulated total of passes and failures.

  • Page 28: Analyzing Cables

    Note This option is not available for all Allied Telesis fiber network adapters. To run a cable analysis, do the following: 1. Connect the cable to a port on a switch where the port is set to Auto and the Speed &...

  • Page 29: Figure 10: Cable Analysis Page

    Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide 6. In the error message window that warns of the network connection being temporarily interrupted, click Yes. Figure 10. Cable Analysis Page Distance The valid cable length in meters (except when the Noise result is...

  • Page 30: Setting Adapter Properties

    You must have administrator privileges to change the values for a property. Note The list of available properties for your particular adapter may be different. In addition, some properties may not be available for all Allied Telesis or Broadcom-based network adapters.
  • Page 31 Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide To set adapter properties, do the following: 1. Click the name of the adapter in the Device Management pane. 2. Click the Configurations tab. If the Configurations tab is not visible, then from the View menu, select Navigate, Device Management, and Configurations.

  • Page 32: Figure 11: Advanced Page

    Chapter 1: Starting and Using BACS 3 Figure 11. Advanced Page 802.1p QOS Enables the quality of service (QoS) feature, which is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) specification that treats different types of network traffic diversely to ensure required levels or reliability and latency according to the type of traffic.
  • Page 33 Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide Flow Control Enables or disables the receipt or transmission of PAUSE frames. PAUSE frames allow the network adapter and a switch to control the transmit rate. The side that is receiving the PAUSE frame momentarily stops transmitting.
  • Page 34 Chapter 1: Starting and Using BACS 3 LSO & Jumbo Frames Enables the network adapter to transmit and receive oversized Ethernet frames that are greater than 1514 bytes, but less than 9000 bytes in length. This property requires the presence of a switch that is able to process Jumbo frames.
  • Page 35 Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide The appropriate assigned ranges and exceptions for the locally administered address include the following: The range is 00:00:00:00:00:01 to FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FD.  Do not use a multicast address (least significant bit of the high byte ...
  • Page 36 Chapter 1: Starting and Using BACS 3 Note 10 Mb Half and 100 Mb Half settings force the network adapter to connect to the network in Half-Duplex mode. Note that the network adapter may not function if the network is not configured to operate at the same mode.
  • Page 37 Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide WOL Speed Sets the speed at which the network adapter connects to the network while the network adapter is in Wake on LAN mode. By default, the WOL Speed property is set to Auto. This property is only available for Broadcom NetXtreme adapters.

  • Page 38: Displaying Statistics

    Click Refresh to get the most recent values for each statistic. Click Reset to change all values to zero. Note Team statistics are not compiled for a Allied Telesis or Broadcom- based network adapter if it is disabled. Note Some statistics may not be available for all Allied Telesis or Broadcom-based network adapters.

  • Page 39: Figure 12: General Statistics Page

    Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide Figure 12. General Statistics Page Directed Frames Tx A count of directed data frames that were successfully transmitted. Multicast Frames Tx A count of frames that were successfully transmitted (as indicated by the status value Transmit OK) to a group destination address other than a broadcast address.
  • Page 40 Chapter 1: Starting and Using BACS 3 transmitted to multicast addresses are not broadcast frames and are excluded. Directed Frames Rx A count of directed data frames that were successfully received. Multicast Frames Rx A count of frames that were successfully received and are directed to an active nonbroadcast group address.
  • Page 41 This section describes the Custom Statistics portion of the General Statistics page which appears in Figure 12 on page 39. Note Custom statistics are available only for an enabled Allied Telesis or Broadcom-based network adapter. Out of Recv. Buffer. The number of times the adapter ran out of Receive Buffer Descriptors.
  • Page 42 Chapter 1: Starting and Using BACS 3...

  • Page 43: Chapter 2: Configuring Teaming

    (STP) at the switch. This minimizes the downtime due to spanning tree loop determination when failing over. LiveLink mitigates such issues. Note BASP is available only if a system has one or more Allied Telesis or Broadcom-based network adapters installed.
  • Page 44 Chapter 2: Configuring Teaming Note The TCP Offload Engine (TOE), Large Send Offload (LSO), and Checksum Offload properties are enabled for a team only when all of the members support and are configured for the feature. Note You must have administrator privileges to create or modify a team. Note The load balance algorithm in a team environment in which members are connected at different speeds favors members...

  • Page 45: Defining Team Types

    Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide Defining Team Types You can create four types of load balance teams: Smart Load Balance and Failover  Link Aggregation (802.3ad)  Generic Trunking (FEC/GEC)/802.3ad-Draft Static  SLB (Auto-Fallback Disable) – The Auto-Fallback Disable feature is ...
  • Page 46 Chapter 2: Configuring Teaming Load Balancing and Failover type of team in which auto-fallback occurs. In addition, the LiveLink feature is supported for the SLB team. Standby Team Member and Auto-Fallback Disable Mode You can designate one team member in an SLB team as the standby member.

  • Page 47: Using The Broadcom Teaming Wizard

    Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide Using the Broadcom Teaming Wizard To use the Broadcom Teaming Wizard to create a team, configure an existing team, or create a VLAN, do the following: 1. Click the Team Management button at the bottom of the BACS 3 window, or from the View menu, select Navigate, then Team Management.

  • Page 48: Figure 14: Edit Team Path

    Chapter 2: Configuring Teaming Figure 14. Edit Team Path Note If you prefer to work without the wizard, click Expert Mode. If you want to always use Expert Mode to create a team, select Default to Expert Mode on next start. See “Using the Expert Mode” on page 65.

  • Page 49: Figure 15: Broadcom Teaming Wizard Page

    Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide Figure 15. Broadcom Teaming Wizard Page 6. Type the team name and then click Next. If you want to review or change any of your settings, click Back. Click Cancel to discard your settings and exit the wizard.

  • Page 50: Figure 16: Creating/Modifying A Team: Team Name Page

    Chapter 2: Configuring Teaming Figure 16. Creating/Modifying a Team: Team Name Page 7. Select the type of team you want to create. If the team type is an SLB type team, click Next. If the team type is not an SLB type team, then a dialog box appears.

  • Page 51: Figure 17: Creating/Modifying A Team: Team Type Page

    Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide Figure 17. Creating/Modifying a Team: Team Type Page 9. From the Available Adapters list, click the adapter you want to add to the team and then click Add. Remove team members from the Team Members list by clicking the adapter and then clicking Remove.

  • Page 52: Figure 18: Creating/Modifying A Team: Assigning Team Members Page

    Chapter 2: Configuring Teaming support and are configured for the feature. If this is the case, then the team offload capabilities appear on the bottom of the screen. Note Adding a network adapter to a team where its driver is disabled may negatively affect the offloading capabilities of the team which, in turn, may have an impact on the team's performance.

  • Page 53: Figure 19: Creating/Modifying A Team: Designating A Standby Member Page

    Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide The Creating/Modifying a Team: Designating a Standby Member Page is displayed. See Figure 19. Figure 19. Creating/Modifying a Team: Designating a Standby Member Page 12. If you want to configure LiveLink, select Yes, otherwise select No, then click Next.

  • Page 54: Figure 20: Creating/Modifying A Team: Configuring Livelink Page

    Chapter 2: Configuring Teaming Figure 20. Creating/Modifying a Team: Configuring LiveLink Page 13. Select the probe interval (the number of seconds between each retransmission of a link packet to the probe target) and the maximum number of probe retries (the number of consecutively missed responses from a probe target before a failover is triggered).

  • Page 55: Figure 21: Creating/Modifying A Team: Configuring Livelink Page (Continued 1)

    Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide 15. Click the probe target at the top of the list, click Edit Target IP Address, type the target IP address in the IP Address box for one or all probe targets, and then click OK. Click Next.

  • Page 56: Figure 22: Creating/Modifying A Team: Configuring Livelink Page (Continued 2)

    Chapter 2: Configuring Teaming Note All of the member IP addresses must be in the same subnet as the subnet of the probe targets. Figure 22. Creating/Modifying a Team: Configuring LiveLink Page (continued 2) 17. If you want to create a VLAN on the team, select Add VLAN, or if you want to change the settings of an existing VLAN, select Edit VLAN, then click Next.

  • Page 57: Figure 23: Creating/Modifying A Vlan: Configure Vlan Support Page

    Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide Note VLANs can only be created when all team members are Broadcom adapters. Figure 23. Creating/Modifying a VLAN: Configure VLAN Support Page 18. Type the VLAN name and then click Next. Note The team name cannot exceed 39 characters, cannot begin with spaces, and cannot contain any of the following characters: &...

  • Page 58: Figure 24: Creating/Modifying A Vlan: Naming Page

    Chapter 2: Configuring Teaming Figure 24. Creating/Modifying a VLAN: Naming Page 19. To tag the VLAN, select Tagged and then click Next. Otherwise, click Untagged, click Next, and continue with the wizard to add additional VLANs (see step 21 of this procedure). The Creating/Modifying a VLAN: Tagging Page is displayed.

  • Page 59: Figure 25: Creating/Modifying A Vlan: Tagging Page

    Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide Figure 25. Creating/Modifying a VLAN: Tagging Page 20. Type the VLAN tag value and then click Next. The value must be between 1 and 4094. The Creating/Modifying a VLAN: Tag Value Page is displayed. See...

  • Page 60: Figure 26: Creating/Modifying A Vlan: Tag Value Page

    Chapter 2: Configuring Teaming Figure 26. Creating/Modifying a VLAN: Tag Value Page 21. Select Yes to add or manage another VLAN and then click Next. Repeat until you do not want to add or manage any additional VLANs. The Creating/Modifying a VLAN: Additional VLANs Page is displayed. See Figure 27 on page 61.

  • Page 61: Figure 27: Creating/Modifying A Vlan: Additional Vlans Page

    Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide Figure 27. Creating/Modifying a VLAN: Additional VLANs Page 22. To apply and commit the changes to the team, select Commit changes to system and Exit the wizard. To apply your changes but continue using the wizard, select Save changes and continue to manage more teams.

  • Page 62: Figure 28: Congratulations! Page

    Chapter 2: Configuring Teaming Figure 28. Congratulations! Page...

  • Page 63: Figure 29: Broadcom Teaming Wizard: Commit Changes Page

    Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide Note At any point in the Broadcom Teaming Wizard procedure, click Preview to get a visual representation of what the team will look like before committing any changes. Figure 29. Broadcom Teaming Wizard: Commit Changes Page 23.

  • Page 64: Figure 30: Team Properties Page

    Chapter 2: Configuring Teaming Figure 30. Team Properties Page...

  • Page 65: Using The Expert Mode

    Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide Using the Expert Mode Use Expert Mode to do the following team activities: “Creating a Team” on page 65  “Modifying a Team” on page 70  “Displaying VLANs and Running VLAN Tests” on page 73 ...

  • Page 66: Figure 31: Creating A Team Path

    Chapter 2: Configuring Teaming This option is not available if there are no devices listed in the "Unassigned Adapters" sections, which means all adapters are already assigned to teams. Figure 31. Creating A Team Path 4. Click Expert Mode. The Manage Teams Page: Create Team Tab is displayed. See Figure 32 on page 66.

  • Page 67: Figure 33: Manage Load Balance Members Window

    Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide 5. Click the Create Team tab. The Manage Load Balance Members Page is displayed. See Figure 32. Note The Create Team tab appears only if there are team-ready adapters available. 6. Click the Team Name field to enter a team name.
  • Page 68 Chapter 2: Configuring Teaming Note You must assign at least one Allied Telesis or Broadcom-based network adapter to the team. The TCP Offload Engine (TOE), Large Send Offload (LSO), and Checksum Offload (CO) columns indicate if the TOE, LSO, and the CO properties are supported (Y) or not supported (N) for the adapter.
  • Page 69 Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide Note The maximum number of team members is 8. Note When team configuration has been correctly performed, a virtual team adapter driver is created for each configured team. Note If you disable a virtual team and later want to reenable it, you must first disable and reenable all team members before you reenable the virtual team.

  • Page 70: Modifying A Team

    Chapter 2: Configuring Teaming d. Configure the IP address and any other necessary TCP/IP configuration for the team, and then click OK when finished. Modifying a After you have created a team, you can modify the team in the following ways: Team Change the type of team...

  • Page 71: Figure 35: Manage Teams Page: Edit Team Tab

    Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide 5. Click the Edit Team tab. The Manage Teams Page: Edit Team Tab is displayed. See Figure 35. Figure 35. Manage Teams Page: Edit Team Tab 6. Make the desired changes, and then click Update.
  • Page 72 Chapter 2: Configuring Teaming Adding a VLAN You can add virtual LANs (VLANs) to a team. This enables you to add multiple virtual adapters that are on different subnets. The benefit of having multiple virtual adapters is that your system can have one network adapter that can belong to multiple subnets.

  • Page 73: Displaying Vlans And Running Vlan Tests

    Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide Figure 36. Manage VLAN(s) Page 9. Click Yes when the message is displayed indicating that the network connection will be temporarily interrupted. Note To maintain optimum adapter performance, your system should have 64 MB of system memory for each of the eight VLANs created per adapter.

  • Page 74: Configuring Livelink

    Chapter 2: Configuring Teaming Deleting a VLAN To delete a VLAN in Expert Mode, do the following: 1. Click the Team Management button at the bottom of the BACS 3 window, or from the View menu, select Navigate, then Team Management.
  • Page 75 6. Select Enable LiveLink. The LiveLink Configuration options appear in Figure 37 on page 76. Allied Telesis recommends accepting 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).

  • Page 76: Figure 37: Manage Teams Page: Edit Teams Tab

    Chapter 2: Configuring Teaming 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. Figure 37. Manage Teams Page: Edit Teams Tab 7.
  • Page 77 Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide 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. 9. Select one of the listed team members and type the member IP address.

  • Page 78: Saving And Restoring The Configuration

    Chapter 2: Configuring Teaming Saving and Restoring the Configuration This section provides procedures to save and restore the teaming configuration. To save the configuration, do the following: 1. From the File menu, select Team Save As. 2. Type the path and file name of the new configuration file, and then click Save (a .bcg extension is added).

  • Page 79: Viewing Basp Statistics

    Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide Viewing BASP Statistics The BASP Statistics section displays performance information about the network adapters that are on a team. To display BASP Statistics information for any team member adapter or the team as a whole, click the name of the adapter or team listed in the Team Management pane, then click the Statistics tab.

  • Page 80: Figure 38: General Page

    Chapter 2: Configuring Teaming Figure 38. General Page...

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