Configuring Advanced Server Features
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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
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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.
Accessing the Advanced Server Features Driver Interface
Use this procedure to access the NIC properties for teaming configuration:
1
Click the
Start
menu, and then select
Settings
/
Control Panel
.
2
Select
Network and Dial-up Connections
, right-click
3Com Virtual NIC
, and then select
Broadcom Advanced Server Program Driver
.
The Advanced Server Features window appears.
Interface components of the Advanced Server Features driver properties window are
described below:
■
Select or enter a team name.
This entry field is used to select or enter a team name.
■
Unassigned NICs
This list displays all of the Ethernet NICs that are available to be added to a team.
Because each NIC can be added to only one team, the NIC is removed from this list
after it has been assigned to a team.
■
Team Type
Load Balance and Failover: Load balancing
FEC/GEC: Also known as general trunking. No standby NIC is allowed when this
option is selected.
■
Team members
This list displays all NICs that belong to a selected team.
■
Standby NICs
This list displays the standby NIC selected for failover for a selected team.
■
VLAN List
This list displays all the VLANs that have been created for the selected team.
Creating a Team and Assigning NICs
A failover team comprises at least one primary NIC (a standby NIC is optional). Each NIC
can belong to only one team. To configure a new failover team, access the Advanced
Server Features Driver Properties window and perform the following steps:
1
Enter a team name in the “Select or enter a team name” entry field.
2
Click
Create Team
.
