Types Of Fault-Tolerant Ethernet Teams - NEC Express5800/320Ma Manual

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Types of Fault-Tolerant Ethernet Teams

You can configure Ethernet PCI adapters into teams to increase fault tolerance or
performance, or both.
In a team, one Ethernet PCI adapter is the primary adapter (or active adapter), and all
other Ethernet PCI adapters are secondary adapters (or backup adapters). In some
cases, the primary adapter is the only active adapter of the team; the secondary
adapter becomes active only if the primary adapter fails. In other cases, all members
of the team actively pass traffic to increase overall transmit or receive throughput.
When you create a team, PROSet automatically assigns the primary and secondary
adapters; however, if necessary, you may manually designate one primary and one
secondary adapter per team. For example, if you are creating a team with mixed
Ethernet PCI adapters, you might want to designate the fastest adapter as the primary
adapter.
Typically, the permanent Media Access Control (MAC) address of the primary Ethernet
PCI adapter becomes the current MAC address for all Ethernet PCI adapters in one
team. (The MAC address is the PROSet Ethernet Address.)
Express5800/320Ma systems support the following types of Ethernet fault-tolerant
teams:
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"Adapter Fault Tolerant Teams"
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"Switch Fault Tolerant Teams"
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"Adaptive Load Balancing Teams"
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"Static Link Aggregation Teams"
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"IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic Link Aggregation Teams"
N O T E S
1. When you are using PROSet remotely through
Remote Desktop, do not modify the team that
provides your connection to the system. Doing so will
result in a loss of network connection.
2. Only one user can access PROSet at a time. If you
attempt to start PROSet and nothing happens,
another user might be running PROSet in a Remote
Desktop session. Use Task Manager to check for the
PROSet.exe process.
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