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Load Balance and Trunk Mode Selection
Use “MODE=SLB” for Load Balance mode or “MODE=TRUNK” for Generic Trunking
mode. The default is load balance mode.
Example:
LOAD BASP.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_II NAME=BASP_1_EII VSLOT=1 MODE=TRUNK
Loading Frame Types
After one or more NIC adapters are bound to a virtual adapter, additional frame types can
only be loaded in the virtual adapter if the corresponding frame types are also loaded in
the bound adapters. For example, ETHERNET_802.2 can be loaded in BASP VSLOT 1
if ETHERNET_802.2 is loaded for the B57 driver in SLOT 1 and 2 in the example below.
Similarly, a virtual NIC can only be bound to a physical NIC if the physical NIC has all
the frame types loaded in the virtual NIC.
Example:
LOAD BASP.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_802.2 NAME=BASP_E82 VSLOT=1
LOAD B57.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_802.2 NAME=B57_1_E82 SLOT=1
LOAD B57.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_802.2 NAME=B57_2_E82 SLOT=2
Hot Standby
In Load Balance mode, one or more NIC can be designated as hot standby NICs. Use the
keyword “STANDBY” in the BASP BIND command to indicate binding a NIC as a hot standby.
Example:
BASP BIND BASP_1_EII B57_1_EII
BASP BIND BASP_1_EII B57_2_EII STANDBY
In the above example, B57_1_EII and B57_2_EII are bound as primary and hot standby
NICs respectively. Note that standby is valid only for load balance mode.
Configuring VLANs
To add VLANs to a team, do the following:
1
Load BASP.LAN with the same frame types as the NIC and specify one or more VLAN
IDs. You can specify a maximum of 64 VLAN IDs.
Example: (VLAN ID 2)
LOAD BASP.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_II NAME=BASP_1_V2_EII VSLOT=1
VLAN=2
Note that when VLAN is set to 0 (which is not a valid number) it will disable the VLAN
feature.
The valid range is 1–4094.
2
Load the network drivers for the NIC in the team with the frame types and VLANs
specified.
Example: (3Com NICs)
LOAD B57.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_II NAME=B57_1_EII SLOT=1
LOAD B57.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_II NAME=B57_2_EII SLOT=2
NOTE:
Load Balance occurs only on the Tx send side with IPX protocol. It will not
Load Balance on the receive side when running NetWare Advanced Server Features.
NOTE:
VLANs are not supported on all NICs. If a non-3Com NIC is a member of a
failover team, VLANs may not be supported for that team.