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Chapter 1: Advanced Server Program Overview

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AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) Features

The AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) is a graphical 
user interface with the following functions. See Chapter 2, “AT-2931SX 
Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) Applications” on page 15 for 
additional information. 

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Vital Sign – The Vital Sign screen allows you to view vital adapter 
information, network status, and network connectivity. Active Adapters 
are listed.

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Resources – Shows the system resources of the selected device.

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Hardware – Shows the hardware information (the ASIC version and 
the firmware version) for the selected device.

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Network Test – The Network Test screen allows you to verify IP 
network connectivity. This test verifies if the NDIS driver is installed 
correctly. Also, it tests connectivity to a gateway or other specified IP 
address on the same subnet.

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Diagnostics – The Diagnostics screen allows you to view information 
about adapters. This function is used to test the network interface 
card.

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Configuration – Sets configuration options (NIC Battery Saving Mode, 
for example).

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Statistics – The Statistics screen allows you to view traffic statistics for 
both the AT-2931SX adapter as well as adapters from other vendors. 
Statistical values and coverage is more comprehensive for the AT-
2931SX adapter.

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Load Balance/Virtual LAN – The Load Balance/Virtual LANs screen 
allows you to configure advanced features. Any available adapter can 
be configured as part of a team. 

Summary of Contents for AT-2931SX

Page 1: ...613 000096 Rev A Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter Advanced Control Suite for the AT 2931SX User s Guide Version 1 0 0...

Page 2: ...rks or registered trademarks of their respective owners Allied Telesyn Inc reserves the right to make changes in specifications and other information contained in this document without prior written n...

Page 3: ...w 16 Information Provided by the BACS Applications 17 BACS Features 17 Installing the AT 2931SX BACS Application 18 Installing with the GUI 18 Using Silent Installation 19 Updating the AT 2931SX BACS...

Page 4: ...Binary 64 Known Problems 64 Chapter 5 Key Protocols and Interfaces 65 Adapter Teaming 66 Smart Load Balancing SLB 66 Link Aggregation 802 3ad 66 Generic Link Aggregation Trunking 66 Smart Load Balanc...

Page 5: ...stics Tab 30 Figure 8 BASP Statistics Tab 33 Figure 9 New Team Configuration Menu 34 Figure 10 Advanced Control Suite 2 Menu 36 Figure 11 New Team Configuration 37 Figure 12 New Team Configuration Men...

Page 6: ...atforms For information about how to install the AT 2931SX adapter as well as procedures to install and configure the related software see the AT 2931SX Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter Installation G...

Page 7: ...Document This document uses the safety symbols defined in Table 1 Table 1 Safety Symbols Symbol Meaning Description Caution Performing or omitting a specific action may result in equipment damage or l...

Page 8: ...s The installation and user guides for all Allied Telesyn products are available in portable document format PDF on our web site at www alliedtelesyn com You can view the documents online or download...

Page 9: ...ber A product sent to Allied Telesyn without an RMA number will be returned to the sender at the sender s expense To obtain an RMA number contact Allied Telesyn Technical Support through our web site...

Page 10: ...Telesyn Advanced Server Program It provides the following sections AT 2931SX Broadcom Advanced Server Program BASP Overview on page 11 AT 2931SX Broadcom Advanced Control Suite BACS Features on page 1...

Page 11: ...ll only be supported with the AT 2931SX adapter VLANs only work with the AT 2931SX adapters Note Standby can only be used in Smart Load Balance mode see Limitations below Smart Load balance SLB mode w...

Page 12: ...ce Network Test The Network Test screen allows you to verify IP network connectivity This test verifies if the NDIS driver is installed correctly Also it tests connectivity to a gateway or other speci...

Page 13: ...Chapter 3 Installing BACS on Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 Systems on page 44 Failover and Load Balance Adapter teaming for failover Smart Load Balance Smart Load Balance auto failback disable Generic...

Page 14: ...quires the Ethernet switch to support the technology and be properly configured This mode is protocol independent and all traffic should be load balanced and fault tolerant 802 3ad mode requires NICE...

Page 15: ...te BACS Applications It contains the following sections Overview on page 16 Installing the AT 2931SX BACS Application on page 18 Updating the AT 2931SX BACS Application on page 20 Removing the AT 2931...

Page 16: ...rm detailed tests diagnostics and analyses on each adapter as well as view traffic statistics and set configuration options for each adapter See Figure 1 The BACS application is designed to run on Win...

Page 17: ...ICMP packets to remote systems and waits for a response If a gateway is configured the test automatically sends packets to that system If a gateway is not configured or if the gateway is unreachable t...

Page 18: ...change user install from the DOS command prompt Installing with the GUI To install the AT 2931SX BACS application using the GUI graphical user interface perform the following procedure Note Before yo...

Page 19: ...Or click Start point to Programs point to Broadcom and then click the Broadcom Advanced Control Suite Using Silent Installation The recommended installation procedure is to copy the installation file...

Page 20: ...2 Click Next in Broadcom Management Programs Setup 3 Read the license agreement and click Yes 4 In Select Components click the component you want to install Control Suite Installs the Broadcom Advanc...

Page 21: ...puter perform the following procedure 1 In Control Panel double click Add Remove Programs 2 Click Broadcom Management Programs and click Change Remove Windows XP or Add Remove Windows 2000 3 Click Nex...

Page 22: ...1SX Broadcom Advanced Control Suite BACS application on your computer perform the following procedure 1 In Control Panel double click Broadcom Control Suite Or click Start point to Programs point to B...

Page 23: ...Tools menu click Create a Team to start the BASP application Select from the following tabs Vital Sign on page 23 Resources on page 26 Hardware on page 27 Network Test on page 28 Diagnostics on page...

Page 24: ...ddress cannot be all 0s IP Address The network address that is associated with the device If the IP address is all 0 s the associated driver has not been bound with the Internet Protocol IP Driver Sta...

Page 25: ...ation about the status of the BASP application This information appears only when there is a team See Configuring Teaming on page 34 Network Status The following network status information is provided...

Page 26: ...t Indicates the PCI bus data width of either 32 or 64 bits Bus No Indicates the PCI bus number and the device number for the device Example 0 14 indicates that the AT 2931SX controller resides in PCI...

Page 27: ...on provides a description of the Hardware Tab See Figure 4 Figure 4 Hardware Tab The Hardware Tab contains the following fields ASIC Version The chip version of the AT 2931SX adapter This information...

Page 28: ...r is installed correctly and tests connectivity to a gateway or other specified IP address on the same subnet The Network test uses TCP IP See Figure 5 on page 28 Figure 5 Network Test Tab Diagnostics...

Page 29: ...his test verifies the read and write capabilities of the registers of the physical layer PHY EEPROM This test verifies the content of the electrically erasable programmable read only memory EEPROM by...

Page 30: ...d packets to and receive packets from the device Test LED This test causes all of the LEDs to blink 5 times for the purpose of identifying the device Statistics On the Statistics Tab you can view traf...

Page 31: ...dresses are not broadcast frames and therefore are excluded Directed Frames Rx A count of directed data frames that are successfully received Multicast Frames Rx A count of frames that are successfull...

Page 32: ...upts generated by the device Number of Interrupts avoided by this adapter The number of interrupts avoided by the device Tx Max Coalesce Frames Threshold hit The number of times the Send Max Coalesce...

Page 33: ...n MAC Transmit with X on was on MAC Sent X off MAC Transmit with X on was off BASP Statistics On the BASP Statistics Tab you can view performance information about the network adapters that are on a t...

Page 34: ...available only on computers that use at least one AT 2931SX Ethernet controller An example of this usage is shown in Figure 9 This example shows three network adapters in the Available Adapters list W...

Page 35: ...k Aggregation type in that all of the adapters in the team need to be configured to receive packets for the same MAC address However this mode does not provide Link Aggregation Control Protocol LACP o...

Page 36: ...Creating a Team To create a team perform the following procedure 1 From the Tools menu click Create a Team as shown in Figure 10 Figure 10 Advanced Control Suite 2 Menu 2 Type a team name in the Ente...

Page 37: ...am and click Next 4 Assign any available device or devices to the team by moving the device from the Available Adapters list to the Load Balance Members list See Figure 12 on page 38 There must be at...

Page 38: ...sage indicating that the network connection will be temporarily interrupted Note The number of characters that can be used in a team name is a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 39 Note A team name cannot...

Page 39: ...Failover and SLB Auto Fallback Disable types of teams Note For an SLB Auto Fallback Disable team when you want to restore traffic to the load balance members from the standby member click the Fallbac...

Page 40: ...the following procedure 1 Right click the name of the team you want to modify and click Configure Team as shown in Figure 13 Figure 13 Team Configuration modifying a team 2 Make the desired changes an...

Page 41: ...to 64 VLANs per team 63 tagged and 1 untagged VLANs can only be created when all members are AT 2931SX adapters If you try to create a VLAN with another type of adapter an error message appears Note...

Page 42: ...N To display VLAN properties and statistics and to run VLAN tests perform the following procedure 1 Click the name of the VLAN adapter of interest 2 Click the Vital Sign Tab to view the properties of...

Page 43: ...eam Save As 2 Type the path and file name of the new configuration file and click Save a bcg extension is added To restore a configuration perform the following procedure 1 From the File menu click Te...

Page 44: ...ems This chapter provides procedures for installing the AT 2931SX BACS application and configuring teaming on Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 systems It contains the following sections Installing the AT...

Page 45: ...Control Suite for the AT 2931SX Adapter User s Guide 45 Installing the AT 2931SX BASP For BASP installation procedures refer to Chapter 2 AT 2931SX Broadcom Advanced Control Suite BACS Applications on...

Page 46: ...d click Change Remove 4 Click Next The InstallShield Wizard screen appears 5 Click the Modify radio button and click Next 6 The Select Components screen appears Four install uninstall selections are a...

Page 47: ...the AT 2931SX BASP TAR Archive on page 52 AT 2931SX BASP Files on page 53 AT 2931SX BASP Configuration for Red Hat and United Linux Distributions on page 54 AT 2931SX BASP Configuration and Startup f...

Page 48: ...h all Ethernet switches without configuring the switch ports to any special trunking mode BASP supports Smart Load Balance SLB Generic Trunking and IEEE 802 3ad Link Aggregation In SLB and 802 3ad mod...

Page 49: ...BASP is released in two packaging formats source RPM and compressed tar formats The file names for the two packages are basplnx version src arch rpm and basplnx version arch tgz Identical source file...

Page 50: ...ages are shipped in this release two tar archives and two RPM packages basplnx version i386 tgz is the tar archive for i386 platform For users of Red Hat or United Linux based distributions follow ins...

Page 51: ...2 Change directory to the RPM path and build the binary driver for the kernel use rpmbuild for Red Hat 8 0 or later cd usr src redhat or packages rpm bb SPECS basplnx spec or rpmbuild bb SPECS basplnx...

Page 52: ...T 2931SX BASP TAR archive perform the following procedure 1 After extraction change to the directory where the BASP source files are located cd basplnx version 2 To build a kernel module basp o make N...

Page 53: ...file from the Make blfver h version header file nicext h NICE header file pal c platform abstraction implementation pal h header for platform abstraction release txt this file nice 2 2 16 NICE enabled...

Page 54: ...the physical adapters that will be team members Network script files are located under etc sysconfig network scripts Red Hat or etc sysconfig network United Linux 1 x The file name must be prefixed w...

Page 55: ...n the etc basp sample team sample script file itself Note that when configuring Teaming at least one Primary Adapter is required 3 Manually start the team for the first time etc init d basp start Note...

Page 56: ...v3 0 14 Broadcom Advanced Server Program Configuration Utility Copyright c 2000 2002 Broadcom Corporation All rights reserved usage baspcfg commands commands where Table 4 Commands Command Description...

Page 57: ...Is it loaded When configuring Teaming one Primary Adapter is required tname ASCII string of the team vlan_id VLAN ID from 1 to 4094 0 untagged or no VLAN vname ASCII string of the virtual device maca...

Page 58: ...Trunking GEC FEC 2 802 3ad TEAM_NAME ascii name of the team TEAM_PAx_NAME ascii name of the physical interface x where x can be 0 to 7 TEAM_PAx_ROLE role of the physical interface x 0 Primary 1 Hot s...

Page 59: ...rs to the Linux kernel network driver source directory i e usr src linux drivers net 4 Follow the kernel rebuild instructions to configure kernel support for these drivers cd usr src linux make config...

Page 60: ...Chapter 4 Installing BACS on a Linux System 60 Uninstalling the RPM Package To uninstall a RPM package perform the following procedure rpm e basplnx and to reboot the system reboot...

Page 61: ...ectly this could lead to a duplicate MAC address problem on the network To properly remove a physical interface perform the following procedure 1 Backup the original team configuration script cp etc b...

Page 62: ...n directory 2 Copy the BASP Config MIB txt BASP Statistics MIB txt and Brcm BSAPTrap MIB txt into the usr share snmp mibs directory 3 Locate the snmpd conf file It is usually located in one of the fol...

Page 63: ...n i386 rpm The AT 2931SX BASP script and MIB files are installed The snmpd conf configuration file is modified to add support for the AT 2931SX BASP SNMP agent 2 Follow steps 4 6 in the Installing the...

Page 64: ...itch This is a 3rd party issue It is seen only when configuring an 802 3ad team with more than 2 members on the server and connecting to an HP2524 switch with LACP enabled as passive or active The HP...

Page 65: ...ter 5 Key Protocols and Interfaces This chapter describes the key protocols and interfaces It contains the following sections Adapter Teaming on page 66 Failover Teaming on page 68 VLANs Overview on p...

Page 66: ...atic fault detection and dynamic failover to other team members or to a hot standby member This is done independently of the layer 3 protocol IP IPX or Net Beui It works with existing layer 2 and 3 sw...

Page 67: ...er modes the creation of teams and the allocation of physical adapters to various teams is done statically via user configuration software Trunking supports load balancing and failover for both the ou...

Page 68: ...o eight adapters The number of teams is limited by the number of adapters that are installed If the primary adapter in a team is disconnected because the adapter cable or switch port fails the seconda...

Page 69: ...used to create individual broadcast domains and or separate IP subnets it is sometimes useful for a server to have a presence on more than one VLAN simultaneously The AT 2931SX adapters support multip...

Page 70: ...e IP subnets are accessed via the single physical adapter interface The server is attached to one of the switch ports which is configured for VLANs 1 2 and 3 Both the adapter and the connected switch...

Page 71: ...logical presence on multiple IP subnets and benefit from load balancing and failover Note Adapters that are members of a failover team can also be configured to support VLANs Adaptive Interrupt Freque...

Page 72: ...be polled ASIC with Embedded RISC Processor The core control for the Gigabit Ethernet Adapter resides in a tightly integrated high performance ASIC The ASIC includes dual RISC processors This provide...

Page 73: ...hapter 6 Troubleshooting This chapter describes troubleshooting procedures It contains the following sections Verifying the Correct Drivers are Loaded on page 74 Software Problems and Solutions on pag...

Page 74: ...reen allows you to view vital adapter information network status and network connectivity Active adapters are listed on the Vial Sign screen 1 From the Vital Sign screen select the AT 2931SX adapter t...

Page 75: ...he following procedure 1 To verify that the AT 2931SX bcm5700 o driver is loaded properly run lsmod If the driver is loaded a line similar to the one below appears where size is the size of the driver...

Page 76: ...nnections in the Network Connection and Dial up Window Similar to physical network connections these virtual connections can be disabled via the context menu However if these virtual connections are r...

Page 77: ...is a limitation of the Windows 2000 network installation paradigm where this invalid configuration is still allowed Problem When creating 64 VLANs all virtual adapters are displayed as disconnected or...

Page 78: ...ct and reconnect continuously Solution This is a 3rd party issue It is seen only when configuring an 802 3ad team with more than 2 members on the server and connecting an HP2524 switch with LACP enabl...

Page 79: ...79 Chapter 7 Manageability Features This chapter describes the magageability features It contains the following sections CIM on page 80 SNMP on page 81...

Page 80: ...plementation provides team information as well as information about physical network adapters in the team AT 2931SX BASP provides events through event logs You can use the Event Viewer provided by Win...

Page 81: ...ics for the BASP teams the physical NIC adapters participating in a team and the virtual NIC adapters created as the result of teaming The BASP configuration data includes information such as team IDs...

Page 82: ...information already provided by the standard SNMP Management Network Interface information The extensible agent provides in depth information about an AT 2931SX adapter such as MAC address bound IP a...

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