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2.12 Dual LAN and Teaming Operation Guide
Dual LAN with Teaming enabled on this motherboard allows two single
connections to act as one single connection for twice the transmission
bandwidth, making data transmission more effective and improving the
quality of transmission of distant images. Fault tolerance on the dual LAN
network prevents network downtime by transferring the workload from a
failed port to a working port.
Before setting up Teaming, please make sure whether your Switch (or
Router) supports Teaming (IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation). You can specify
a preferred adapter in Intel PROSet. Under normal conditions, the Primary
adapter handles all non-TCP/IP traffic. The Secondary adapter will receive
fallback traffic if the primary fails. If the Preferred Primary adapter fails, but
is later restored to an active status, control is automatically switched back to
the Preferred Primary adapter.
Step 1
From
Device Manager
, open the properties of a team.
Step 2
Click the Settings tab.
Step 3
Click the Modify Team button.
Step 4
Select the adapter you want to be the primary adapter and click the Set
Primary button.
If you do not specify a preferred primary adapter, the software will choose
an adapter of the highest capability (model and speed) to act as the default
primary. If a failover occurs, another adapter becomes the primary. The
adapter will, however, rejoin the team as a non-primary.
The speed of transmission is subject to the actual network environment or
status even with Teaming enabled.