Configuring Ethernet PCI Adapters
N O T E S
1.When you are using PROSet remotely through Remote Desktop, do not modify the team that provides your connection to the system. Doing so will result in a loss of network connection.
2.Only one user can access PROSet at a time. If you attempt to start PROSet and nothing happens, another user might be running PROSet in a Remote Desktop session. Use Task Manager to check for the PROSet.exe process.
For more information about the PROSet utility, read the PROSet online help, which you access by clicking Help from the PROSet main window.
Types of Fault-Tolerant Ethernet Teams
You can configure Ethernet PCI adapters into teams to increase fault tolerance or performance, or both.
In a team, one Ethernet PCI adapter is the primary adapter (or active adapter), and all other Ethernet PCI adapters are secondary adapters (or backup adapters). In some cases, the primary adapter is the only active adapter of the team; the secondary adapter becomes active only if the primary adapter fails. In other cases, all members of the team actively pass traffic to increase overall transmit or receive throughput.
When you create a team, PROSet automatically assigns the primary and secondary adapters; however, if necessary, you may manually designate one primary and one secondary adapter per team. For example, if you are creating a team with mixed Ethernet PCI adapters, you might want to designate the fastest adapter as the primary adapter.
Typically, the permanent Media Access Control (MAC) address of the primary Ethernet PCI adapter becomes the current MAC address for all Ethernet PCI adapters in one team. (The MAC address is the PROSet Ethernet Address.)
Express5800/320Ma systems support the following types of Ethernet
•“Adapter Fault Tolerant Teams”
•“Switch Fault Tolerant Teams”
•“Adaptive Load Balancing Teams”
•“Static Link Aggregation Teams”
•“IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic Link Aggregation Teams”
Ethernet PCI Adapters
