D-Link DGE-560SX User Guide
11
2003
Windows Server
2008
Y
Y
N/S
Y
N
N/S
NetWare 5.1/6.5
Y
Y
N/S
Y
Y
N/S
Red Hat Linux 3
and 4
Y
N/S
N/S
Y
N/S
N/S
Legend:
Y = yes
N = no
N/S = not supported
Drivers for third-party network adapters must be NetWare Event Service Layer (NESL)
compliant for NetWare to be fault-tolerant and load-balanced in a multivendor team.
The Smart Load Balancing type of team works with all Ethernet switches without having to
configure the switch ports to any special trunking mode. Only IP traffic is load-balanced in
both inbound and outbound directions. IPX traffic is load-balanced in the outbound direction
only. Other protocol packets are sent and received through one primary interface only.
Failover for non-IP traffic is supported only for Broadcom network adapters. The Generic
Trunking type of team requires the Ethernet switch to support some form of port trunking
mode (for example, Cisco's Gigabit EtherChannel or other switch vendor's Link Aggregation
mode). The Generic Trunking type of team is protocol-independent, and all traffic should be
load-balanced and fault-tolerant.
NOTE: If you do not enable LiveLink™ when configuring teams, disabling Spanning Tree
Protocol (STP) at the switch is recommended. This minimizes the downtime due to the
spanning tree loop determination when failing over. LiveLink mitigates such issues.
LiveLink™ Functionality
LiveLink™ functionality is a feature of BASP that is available only for the Smart Load
Balancing™ and Failover type of teaming. The purpose of LiveLink is to detect network
connectivity beyond the switch and to route traffic only through team members that have a
live link. This function is accomplished though the teaming software. The teaming software
periodically probes (issues a link packet from each team member) one or more specified
target network adapter(s). The probe target(s) responds when it receives the link packet. If
a team member does not detect a response within a specified amount of time after a specified
number of retries, the teaming software discontinues passing traffic through that team