Introduction To D-Link's Load Balancing Utility - D-Link DFE-570TX Setup Manual

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Introduction to the D-Link Load Balancing Utility
Your DFE-570 adapter includes a software utility that provides dynamic fail over and
allows customers to load balance network traffic across the multiple ports on the
adapter. This utility is an elegantly simple yet extremely effective solution for
increasing server availability and performance. The software's protocol independence
allow easy integration into any NT server environment, making it ideal for mission-
critical database servers, electronic commerce, web servers and file servers.
This utility eliminates each network port as a single point of failure by providing
redundancy across all the ports on the adapter. The software ensures that users
maintain non-stop access to key resources on the network, even if one or more of
the network interface connections go down. If a connection to an adapter is lost, the
software will instantly take the port out of the array and balance the traffic across
the remaining ports with no loss of data and, just as importantly, without loss of
connection.
The software can eliminate network interface performance bottlenecks by distributing
traffic among then four Ethernet ports on the adapter. The software instantly routes
connections to different adapters as users access the server. This process effectively
increases network interface bandwidth by a factor equal to the number of ports on
the adapter. To the server, these ports appear as a single network interface. To the
remote workstation or web surfer, the server appears immediately available without
the delay caused by congestion during high-access periods.
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