NETGEAR ReadyNAS 2100 - Manual (Page 23)

ReadyNAS 2100 User Manual
Managing Your ReadyNAS 2100 2-5
v1.1, June 2009
• Adaptive Load Balancing: Includes Transmit Load Balancing plus Receive Load Balancing
for IPV4 traffic, and does not require any special switch support. The receive load balancing is
achieved by ARP negotiation.
VLAN Settings (Virtual Local Area Network)
In this section, you can specify whether to allow devices residing on different segments of a LAN
to appear in the same segment or, conversely, to allow devices on the same switch to behave as
through they belong to a different LAN.
If you wish to use the ReadyNAS 2100 in a VLAN environment, select the Enable VLAN
support check box, and enter a numeric VLAN ID. You need to reboot the ReadyNAS 2100 for
the VLAN function to take effect.
Performance Settings
In this section, you can the Enable jumbo frames option allows you to optimize the ReadyNAS
2100 for large data transfers such as multiple streams of video playback.
Figure 2-6
Warning: Do not enable VLAN support unless you are sure that your clients also
support VLAN. Otherwise, you can lose network access to the unit, and you
might need to reinstall the firmware to disable the VLAN setting.
Figure 2-7