3Com 3C996B-T manual Uninstalling Advanced Server Features, Configuring Advanced Server Features

3Windows XP Driver Setup

7Double-click baspi64i.exe to install Advanced Server Features.

This will install the Advanced Server Features software and display a window.

From this menu, you can create a team. See “Creating a Team and Assigning NICs” on page 21, or click OK to complete installation.

Uninstalling Advanced Server Features

1Start Windows XP I64 Server Edition and log in. You must have Network Administrator privileges to uninstall the driver software.

2Select Start/Control Panel/Network Connections.

3Right-click any NIC and select Properties.

4Click Broadcom Advanced Server Features program driver, and then click Uninstall.

5A Warning screen appears. Click Yes to continue.

6At the prompt, click Yes to restart.

Configuring Advanced Server Features

The Advanced Server Features provides load balancing, failover, and VLAN configuration by creating teams (virtual NICs) that consist of multiple NICs.

Configuring Teaming

NOTE: All teaming configurations can be optionally performed using the 3Com Management Programs. Refer to “3Com Management Programs” on page 85 for additional information.

Any available NIC can be configured as part of a team. Teaming is a method of grouping multiple NICs to a virtual NIC (bundling multiple NICs to look like a single NIC). The benefit of this approach is load balancing.

By selecting each of the available NICs, move each of them over to the Load Balance

Members column. This “team” now appears as one NIC. Each member in the Load

Balance Member list shares the traffic burden of all its members.

The Standby Member field is used to permit the selection of one team member to handle traffic, if all other members in the Load Balance Member list fail (failover). The selected Standby Member will not handle any traffic unless all Load Balance Members fail. When one load balance member (or more) is restored (fail-back), traffic will then be resumed by the restored team member(s).

Teaming configuration is optional. Before configuring Teaming, see the “NIC Teaming” in Key Protocols and Interfaces.

Configuring Teaming consists of the following tasks:

■Accessing the Advanced Server Features Driver Properties interface

■Creating teams

■Adding NICs to the teams

■Assigning IP addresses to the teams

Each of these tasks is described below, along with procedures describing how to delete

NICs from a failover team and how to delete a team.

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