HP 441877-00B manual Windows 2000 and Windows NT4 teaming

•If the new team includes at least one TOE-enabled adapter and at least one non-TOE capable adapter, the team is created with TOE disabled and TOE is disabled on all of the individual teamed adapters.

•If a non-TOE capable adapter is added to a TOE-enabled team, the team is changed to TOE disabled. TOE functionality for each teamed adapter is disabled.

Disabling or dissolving a TOE-enabled team:

•If TOE teaming is disabled on an existing TOE-enabled team, TOE is disabled on all of the teamed adapters.

•If a team is dissolved, the TOE functionality for each adapter that was on the team does not change.

RSS teaming characteristics

When creating a team with all RSS-capable adapters:

•If at least one adapter is RSS-enabled, the team is created with RSS-enabled and all adapters on the team are set to RSS-enabled.

•If none of the adapters are RSS-enabled, the team is created with RSS-disabled.

•If RSS is disabled on a team of RSS-capable adapters, enabling RSS for the team changes all of the adapters to RSS-enabled.

When creating a team with RSS-capable and non-RSS capable adapters:

•If the new team includes at least one RSS-enabled adapter and at least one non-RSS capable adapter, the team is created with RSS-disabled and RSS functionality for each adapter that is in the team is disabled.

•If a non-RSS capable adapter is added to an RSS-enabled team, the team is changed to RSS- disabled and RSS functionality for each adapter that is in the team is disabled.

Disabling or dissolving an RSS-enabled team:

•If RSS teaming is disabled on an existing RSS-enabled team, the RSS functionality for each adapter that is in the team is disabled.

•If a team is dissolved, the RSS functionality for each adapter that was in the team does not change.

Windows 2000 and Windows NT4 teaming

Windows 2000 teaming

NOTE: The installation of adapter drivers from other vendors is not supported by HP. To avoid unpredictable results when using the HP Teaming function or other features supported by the HP Network Configuration Utility, install only HP adapter drivers.

Upgrading teams to Windows® 2000

The Windows® 2000 Primer Utility from HP lets you remove unsupported Windows® 2000 utilities before or after upgrading your OS. These unsupported utilities were designed to run on Windows NT®

4.0 and may have been installed using the following media:

•Any version of the HP SSD for Windows NT® Setup program

•Any version of HP Integration Maintenance Utility and HP System Partition Upgrade Utility installed from HP SmartStart

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