3Com 3C996B-T manual Advanced Server Features for Windows NT, Advanced Server Features Overview

Advanced Server Features Overview

Advanced Server Features for Windows NT

The following options are supported under Windows NT Server operating systems (Server and Enterprise Server). See “Windows NT Driver Setup” on page 37 for additional information.

Failover and Load Balance

■Adapter teaming for failover (heterogeneous support for 3Com 10/100 server NICs, released Alteon AceNIC, Intel 82559 LAN on Motherboard (LOM), released

Intel 10/100 server NICs, and released Intel 1000BaseSX server NICs).

■Load balance

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Generic Link Aggregation (GEC/FEC, open trunk)

Link aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad) static implementation only

Virtual LAN (VLANs)

■Up to 64 VLANs per team using IEEE 802.1Q-1988 tagging.

Offloading

■Jumbo frames (9K)

PCI Hot-Plug

■Contact your OEM for more information.

Advanced Server Features for Novell NetWare

The following options are supported under Novell NetWare. See “Novell NetWare Driver Setup” on page 51 for additional information.

Failover and Load Balance

■Adapter teaming for failover (heterogeneous support for 3Com 10/100 server NICs, Alteon Tigon2/3, Intel 82559 LAN on Motherboard (LOM), Intel 10/100 server NICs, and Intel 1000BaseSX server NICs).

■Load Balance

■Generic Link Aggregation (GEC/FEC, open trunk)

NESL Compliance

For optimal fault tolerance and recovery operations, BASP.LAN relies on the NIC drivers to generate NESL (NetWare Event Service Layer) events during link changes and other failure events. NESL is an optional feature in the ODI driver specification and not all drivers support it. For NESL events to propagate properly to BASP.LAN, ODINEB.NLM must be loaded before the NESL compliant ODI drivers.

Do the following to determine if a NIC driver supports NESL events:

■Load BASP.LAN and create a team by binding the NIC to the virtual slot (see instructions and examples below). In the Virtual Adapter X Team Members screen of the BASP.LAN menu interface, the Link status of all bound NICs are shown. Disconnect or connect the NIC cable. The link status shown on the screen should change immediately if the NIC driver supports NESL events.

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