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Product Overview
Network Configuration Examples
This section provides examples of typical network configurations,
and compares them to configurations using Duralink64 Port
Aggregation and Duralink64 Failover. It also shows the benefits of
using Duralink64 Failover.
Traditional Network Configurations
The following figure shows a single-segment server initialized at
100 Megabits/sec with Full Duplex Ethernet (FDE). The segmented
server in this example is limited to 200 Megabits/sec. If the
connection to the server fails, clients can still communicate with
one another via the Ethernet switch; but server accessibility will, of
course, be impossible without the link.
The next figure shows how fault tolerance is achieved by doubling
the hardware and adding a special version of NetWare (SFT3). One
Server
Ethernet Switch
Clients
Central switching area
with lines to workgroups
Ethernet Switch
Router
Clients
