3Com 3C996B-T User Manual

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Uninstalling Advanced Server Features57Load Balance and Trunk Mode SelectionUse “MODE=SLB” for Load Balance mode or “MODE=TRUNK” for Generic Trunkingmode. The default is load balance mode.Example:LOAD BASP.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_II NAME=BASP_1_EII VSLOT=1 MODE=TRUNKLoading Frame TypesAfter one or more NIC adapters are bound to a virtual adapter, additional frame types canonly be loaded in the virtual adapter if the corresponding frame types are also loaded inthe bound adapters. For example, ETHERNET_802.2 can be loaded in BASP VSLOT 1if ETHERNET_802.2 is loaded for the B57 driver in SLOT 1 and 2 in the example below.Similarly, a virtual NIC can only be bound to a physical NIC if the physical NIC has allthe frame types loaded in the virtual NIC.Example:LOAD BASP.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_802.2 NAME=BASP_E82 VSLOT=1LOAD B57.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_802.2 NAME=B57_1_E82 SLOT=1LOAD B57.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_802.2 NAME=B57_2_E82 SLOT=2Hot StandbyIn Load Balance mode, one or more NIC can be designated as hot standby NICs. Use thekeyword “STANDBY” in the BASP BIND command to indicate binding a NIC as a hot standby.Example:BASP BIND BASP_1_EII B57_1_EIIBASP BIND BASP_1_EII B57_2_EII STANDBYIn the above example, B57_1_EII and B57_2_EII are bound as primary and hot standbyNICs respectively. Note that standby is valid only for load balance mode.Configuring VLANsTo add VLANs to a team, do the following:1 Load BASP.LAN with the same frame types as the NIC and specify one or more VLANIDs. You can specify a maximum of 64 VLAN IDs.Example: (VLAN ID 2)LOAD BASP.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_II NAME=BASP_1_V2_EII VSLOT=1VLAN=2Note that when VLAN is set to 0 (which is not a valid number) it will disable the VLANfeature.The valid range is 1–4094.2 Load the network drivers for the NIC in the team with the frame types and VLANsspecified.Example: (3Com NICs)LOAD B57.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_II NAME=B57_1_EII SLOT=1LOAD B57.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_II NAME=B57_2_EII SLOT=2NOTE: Load Balance occurs only on the Tx send side with IPX protocol. It will notLoad Balance on the receive side when running NetWare Advanced Server Features.NOTE: VLANs are not supported on all NICs. If a non-3Com NIC is a member of afailover team, VLANs may not be supported for that team.