IBM Netfinity, User Manual

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User’s guide
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3. When you are finished configuring Failover Teams, click Close to accept the
changes.
If any team has fewer than two adapters assigned, you are prompted to add another
adapter or delete the team. When team configuration has been correctly performed, a
Failover Team is created that appears along with the other adapters in the Network
window of the Control Panel.
If there are no Failover Teams or VLANs currently configured for the selected
adapter, the following window opens:
If the dialog box shown above is displayed, you must click Yes or No before you can
complete the adapter configuration.
4. In the Network window, click Close.
5. When you are prompted to restart your computer, click Yes.
Your computer will restart, using the new configuration settings.
VLANs
Your Netfinity Gigabit Ethernet Adapter can be configured to support virtual local area
networks (VLANs). This section provides instructions for configuring optional VLANs
for an adapter.
If you do not want to configure your network to include multiple VLANs, you need only
to configure the adapter to support the default configuration, as described in “Installing the
device drivers” on page 1-6.
Note: Adapters that are members of a Failover Team can also be configured to support
VLANs. When configuring VLANs for Failover Team adapters, any adapter or
LAN on motherboard (LOM) that is a member of a team inherits the configuration
of the primary adapter. However, when an adapter or LOM is removed from the
team, its original configuration parameters are used.
With VLANs, you can divide your physical LAN into logical subparts to create logical
segmentation of workgroups and to enforce security policies among each logical segment.
Each defined VLAN behaves as a separate network, with traffic and broadcasts isolated
from the others, increasing bandwidth efficiency within each logical group. Up to 64
VLANs can be defined for each adapter on your computer, depending on the amount of
memory your computer has available.