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Each team can consist of up to eight adapters, with one adapter used as a standby for Smart
Load Balancing and Failover (SLB) or SLB (Auto-Fallback Disabled) team types. If traffic is not
identified on any of the adapter team member connections due to failure of the adapter, cable,
or switch, the load will be distributed to the remaining team members with an active
connection. In the event that all primary adapters fail, traffic will be distributed to the standby
adapter. Existing sessions are maintained with no impact on the user.
Types of Teams
The available types of teams for the supported operating systems are shown in the following
table:
Table 1. Types of Teams
Operating System
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2008
Linux
NetWare
Smart Load Balancing™ and Failover
Smart Load Balancing™ and Failover is the Broadcom implementation of load balancing
based on IP flow. This feature supports balancing IP traffic across multiple adapters (team
members) in a bidirectional manner. In this type of team, all adapters in the team have
separate MAC addresses. This type of team provides automatic fault detection and dynamic
failover to other team member or to a hot standby member. This is done independently of
Layer 3 protocol (IP, IPX, NetBEUI); rather, it works with existing Layer 2 and Layer 3
switches. No switch configuration (such as trunk, link aggregation) is necessary for this type
of team to work.
NOTES:
If you do not enable LiveLink™ when configuring SLB teams, disabling
o
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) at the switch or port is recommended. This
Available Types of Teams
Smart Load Balancing and Failover
Link Aggregation (802.3ad)
Generic Trunking (FEC/GEC)/802.3ad-Draft Static
SLB (Auto-Fallback Disable)
Team adapters using the bonding kernel module and a
channel bonding interface. See your Red Hat documentation
for more information.
Smart Load Balancing
Link Aggregation (802.3ad)
Generic Trunking
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