Choosing Adapter Teaming Options; General Configuration Notes - HP D5970A - NetServer - LCII Installation Manual

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
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.
Use of the teaming features requires HP
Server adapters.
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