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Duralink64 Drivers for NetWare
Creating the Failover Pair, Port Aggregation or
FEC Groups
The Failover pair consists of only two ports: the primary port and
the backup port.
FEC supports either two or four ports. One, three, or more than
four ports are not supported.
After configuring ports, you may create Standalone, Failover, Port
Aggregation, or FEC groups using the following steps:
1
In the Configuration Menu, select Set Groups, and press Enter.
2
In the List of Existing Groups box, press Ins to add a new
group. The message
No groups currently exist
appears the first
time you add a new group
1
.
3
Select the group, and press Enter. Group1 is the new group’s
default name.
4
In the Group Configuration menu, select Set Group Type, and
press Enter. The Set Group Type menu appears.
5
In the Set Group Type menu, select Standalone, Failover, Port
Aggregation
, or Fast EtherChannel, and press Enter.
6
In the Group Configuration menu, select Add/Remove Ports,
and press Enter. The Existing Ports box appears.
7
In the Existing Ports box, the message
No Ports Present
appears the first time you add a new group. Press Ins.
8
In the Available Ports box, use the arrow keys to select the
ports for the new group, and press Enter. Repeat until all ports
are selected.
9
Press Esc to return to the Group Configuration menu. The
selected ports are transferred to the Existing Ports box.
10
O
PTIONAL
.
configsf
automatically assigns a name to each new
group. For example, the first group = Group1. To assign a
unique name to a group:
a
From the Group Configuration menu, select Set Group
Name
, and press Enter.
1
If you are in
configsf
, this message appears only when no groups are
found.
