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Windows XP Driver Setup
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Double-click
baspi64i.exe
to install Advanced Server Features.
This will install the Advanced Server Features software and display a window.
From this menu, you can create a team. See “Creating a Team and Assigning NICs”
on page 21, or click
OK
to complete installation.
Uninstalling Advanced Server Features
1
Start Windows XP I64 Server Edition and log in. You must have Network
Administrator privileges to uninstall the driver software.
2
Select
Start/Control Panel/Network Connections
.
3
Right-click any NIC and select
Properties
.
4
Click
Broadcom Advanced Server Features program driver
, and then click
Uninstall.
5
A Warning screen appears. Click
Yes
to continue.
6
At the prompt, click
Yes
to restart.
Configuring Advanced Server Features
The Advanced Server Features provides load balancing, failover, and VLAN configuration
by creating teams (virtual NICs) that consist of multiple NICs.
Configuring Teaming
Any available NIC can be configured as part of a team. Teaming is a method of grouping
multiple NICs to a virtual NIC (bundling multiple NICs to look like a single NIC). The benefit
of this approach is
load balancing
.
By selecting each of the available NICs, move each of them over to the Load Balance
Members column. This “team” now appears as one NIC. Each member in the Load
Balance Member list shares the traffic burden of all its members.
The Standby Member field is used to permit the selection of one team member to handle
traffic, if all other members in the Load Balance Member list fail (failover). The selected
Standby Member will not handle any traffic unless all Load Balance Members fail. When
one load balance member (or more) is restored (fail-back), traffic will then be resumed by
the restored team member(s).
Teaming configuration is optional. Before configuring Teaming, see the “NIC Teaming” in
Key Protocols and Interfaces.
Configuring Teaming consists of the following tasks:
■
Accessing the Advanced Server Features Driver Properties interface
■
Creating teams
■
Adding NICs to the teams
■
Assigning IP addresses to the teams
Each of these tasks is described below, along with procedures describing how to delete
NICs from a failover team and how to delete a team.
NOTE:
All teaming configurations can be optionally performed using the 3Com
Management Programs. Refer to “3Com Management Programs” on page 85 for
additional information.
