Maintaining A Load Balancing/Rsl Configuration; Adding A Secondary Nic To A Load Balancing/Rsl Group - 3Com EtherLink 3C985B-SX User Manual

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Maintaining a Load Balancing/RSL Configuration
The examples in this section illustrate typical actions
you might take in the course of maintaining a Load
Balancing/RSL configuration. They show how to add
NICs and groups to a server where Load Balancing/RSL
software is already installed and configured.

Adding a Secondary NIC to a Load Balancing/RSL Group

1 Install the new secondary NIC.
Follow the procedures in
Connect the new secondary NIC to the network used by
the Load Balancing/RSL group.
2 Make the following changes to the AUTOEXEC.NCF file:
a Add or verify the LOAD commands for the LAN drivers
b Load the same protocols and frame types on the new
c Add the slot number of the new secondary NIC to the
Figure 13 AUTOEXEC.NCF File for One Group of Three NICs
load el985lb
;Define primary NIC slot-frame instances
load 3c985 slot=1 frame=ethernet_802.2 name=p1_802.2
load 3c985 slot=1 frame=ethernet_ii
;Define secondary NIC slot-frame instances
load 3c985 slot=2 frame=ethernet_802.2 name=p2_802.2
load 3c985 slot=2 frame=ethernet_ii
load 3c985 slot=3 frame=ethernet_802.2 name=p3_802.2
load 3c985 slot=3 frame=ethernet_ii
;Bind protocols to primary NIC
bind ipx to p1_802.2 net=FF02
bind ip to p1_ii
;Create a group with NIC 1 primary and
;NICs 2 and 1003 secondary
el985lb bind 1 2 3
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for all slot-frame instances.
secondary NIC.
EL985LB BIND command.
address=192.1.1.1 mask=ff.ff.ff.00
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name=p1_ii
name=p2_ii
name=p3_ii