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Allied Telesis Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User Manual

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Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 User’s Guide

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Link Status

The Link Status indicates the status of the network link. There are two
states:

Up. A link is established.

Down. A link is not established.

Duplex

The adapter is operating in the indicated duplex mode.

Speed

The link speed of the adapter in megabits per second.

Offload Capabilities

The offload capabilities supported by the adapter. This information is only
available for Allied Telesis AT-2973 adapters.

LSO. Large Send Offload (LSO) prevents an upper level protocol such
as TCP from breaking a large data packet into a series of smaller
packets with headers appended to them.

CO. Checksum Offload (CO) allows the TCP/IP/UDP checksums for
send and receive traffic to be calculated by the adapter hardware
rather than by the host CPU.

LiveLink IP Address

The network address of the LiveLink enabled adapter.

Local Connection

Identifies the module to which the blade server is attached. There are 3
possible states:

Chassis SW. Indicates the chassis switch module

Chassis PHY. Indicates the pass-through module

None. Indicates that no modules are attached

BASP State

Information about the status of the BASP application. This information is
displayed only when there is a team configured (see Chapter 2,
“Configuring Teaming” on page 43)
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