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8 Choosing Adapter Teaming
Options
The HP NetServer 10/100 adapter provides several options for
increasing throughput and fault tolerance when running
Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 or NetWare 4.2 or newer:
NOTE Use of the teaming features requires HP
Server adapters.
Adapter Fault Tolerance (AFT) — provides automatic
redundancy for your adapter. If the primary adapter fails, the
secondary takes over. Adapter Fault Tolerance supports two to
eight adapters per team.
Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB) — allows balancing the
transmission data flow among two to eight adapters. Also
includes the AFT option. Works with any 100BASE-TX
switch.
Cisco Fast EtherChannel (FEC) — creates a team of two,
four, six or eight adapters to increase transmission and
reception throughput. Also includes AFT option. Requires a
switch with FEC capability. (See your switch documentation
for the number of ports you can aggregate in a team.)
To set up an option, go to the appropriate section in the pages
that follow.
General Configuration Notes
• Windows NT versions prior to 4.0 don’t support
adapter teaming options.
• Adapter Teaming options require Windows NT 4.0
with Service Pack 4 or higher.