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Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Teaming Services: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57XX User Guide

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Outbound Load Balancing using MAC Address - No
Outbound Load Balancing using IP Address - Yes
Multivendor teaming – Supported (must include at least one Broadcom Ethernet adapter as a team member)

Applications

Dynamic trunking works with switches that support IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation dynamic mode using LACP. Inbound load
balancing is switch dependent. In general, the switch traffic is load balanced based on L2 addresses. In this case, all network
protocols such as IP, IPX, and NetBEUI are load balanced. Therefore, this is the recommended teaming mode when the switch
supports LACP, except when switch fault tolerance is required. SLB is the only teaming mode that supports switch fault
tolerance.

Configuration Recommendations

Dynamic trunking supports connecting the teamed ports to switches as long as they are on the same broadcast domain and
supports IEEE 802.3ad LACP trunking. It does not support connecting to a router or Layer 3 switches since the ports must be
on the same subnet.

Driver Support by Operating System

As previously noted, BASP is supported in Windows Server 2008 and 2012 operating system environments.

The various teaming mode features are summarized in the table below.

Table 6.

Features

Windows Support

Smart Load Balancing™

User interface

BACSa

Number of teams

Number of adapters per team 8
Hot replace

Yes

Hot add

Yes

Hot remove

Yes

Link speed support

Different speeds

Frame protocol

Incoming packet management BASP
Outgoing packet management BASP
Failover event

Loss of link or LiveLink event

Failover time

<500 ms

Fallback time

1.5 sb (approximate)

LiveLink support

Yes

MAC address

Different

Multivendor teaming

Yes

Generic Trunking
User interface

BACS