Using Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 4
NetXtreme
User Guide
Broadcom
®
April 2017 • 2CS57XX-CDUM514-R
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Configuring LiveLink for a Smart Load Balancing and Failover and SLB
(Auto-Fallback Disable) Team
LiveLink is a feature of BASP that is available for the Smart Load Balancing (SLB) and SLB (Auto-Fallback
Disable) type of teaming. The purpose of LiveLink is to detect link loss beyond the switch and to route traffic only
through team members that have a live link.
Read the following notes before you attempt to configure LiveLink.
To configure LiveLink
1.
From the
Teams
menu, select
Edit Team
.
2.
Click Expert Mode (to configure LiveLink using the Teaming Wizard, see
3.
In the Manage Members window, click the
Edit Team
tab.
4.
Select
Enable LiveLink
. The LiveLink Configuration options appear below.
5.
It is recommended to accept the default values for
Probe interval
(the number of seconds between each
retransmission of a link packet to the probe target) and
Probe maximum retries
(the number of
consecutively missed responses from a probe target before a failover is triggered). To specify different
values, click the desired probe interval in the
Probe interval (seconds)
list and click the desired maximum
number of probe retries in the
Probe maximum retries
list.
6.
Set the
Probe VLAN ID
to correspond with the VLAN where the probe target(s) resides. This will apply the
appropriate VLAN tag to the link packet based on the shared configuration of the attached switch port(s).
7.
Select
Probe Target 1
and type the target IP address for one or all probe targets.
8.
Select one of the listed team members and type the member IP address.
Notes:
• Before you begin configuring LiveLink™, review the description of LiveLink. Also verify that each
probe target you plan to specify is available and working. If the IP address of the probe target
changes for any reason, LiveLink must be reconfigured. If the MAC address of the probe target
changes for any reason, you must restart the team (see “Troubleshooting”).
• A probe target must be on the same subnet as the team, have a valid (not a broadcast, multicast,
or unicast), statically-assigned IP address, and be highly available (always on).
• To ensure network connectivity to the probe target, ping the probe target from the team.
• You can specify up to four probe targets.
• The IP address assigned to either a probe target or team member cannot have a zero as the first
or last octet.
Note:
Each LiveLink enabled team can only communicate with Probe Targets on a single VLAN. Also,
VLAN ID 0 is equivalent to an untagged network.
Note:
Only the first probe target is required. You can specify up to 3 additional probe targets to serve
as backups by assigning IP addresses to the other probe targets.
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