Allied Telesis AT-2972T/2 - Manual (Page 39)

Advanced Control Suite User’s Guide
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Configuring Teaming
The teaming function allows you to group available network devices
together to function as a team. Teaming is a method of creating a virtual
LAN (a group of multiple devices that function as a single device). The
benefit of this approach is that it enables load balancing and failover. You
use BASP to set up teaming. For more information about BASP, see
“Overview” on page 16.
Note
BASP is available only on computers that use at least one Allied
Telesis Gigabit Ethernet adapter or other Broadcom NetXtreme
devices.
An example of teaming is shown in Figure 11. This example shows several
network adapters in the Available Adapters list. When these adapters are
moved to the Load Balance Members list, they function as a single
adapter—that is, each member shares the traffic burden.
Figure 11. New Team Configuration Window
There are four types of load balance teams:
ˆ Smart Load Balance and Failover. In this type of team, a standby
member handles the traffic if all of the load balance members fail (a
failover event). All load balance members have to fail before the
standby member takes over. When one or more of the load balance