Allied Telesis AT-2931SX manual Configuring Teaming

Chapter 2: AT-2931SX Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) Applications

Configuring Teaming

The teaming function allows you to group available network devices together to function as a team. Teaming is a method of creating a virtual LAN (a group of multiple devices that function as a single device). The benefit of this approach is that it enables load balancing and failover. Teaming is done via BASP. For more information about BASP, see “Overview” on page 16.

Note

AT-2931SX BASP is available only on computers that use at least one AT-2931SX Ethernet controller.

An example of this usage is shown in Figure 9. This example shows three network adapters in the Available Adapters list. When these adapters are moved to the Load Balance Members list, they function as a single adapter—that is, each member shares the traffic burden.

Figure 9. New Team Configuration Menu

There are 4 types of load balance teams:

ˆSmart Load Balance and Failover. In this type of team, a standby member handles the traffic if all of the load balance members fail (a failover event). All load balance members have to fail before the standby member takes over. When one or more of the load balance

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