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Teaming of Compaq NICs

 
Ayman Altounji
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‎02-11-2001 04:00 PM

‎02-11-2001 04:00 PM

Teaming of Compaq NICs

I've a question about the diffrence of Smart-Switch and Fail on Fault Option in the Compaq Teaming Utility. Whats the diffrence between these two choices excactly? When does a smart-switch team switch?
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Ayman Altounji
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‎02-12-2001 04:00 PM

‎02-12-2001 04:00 PM

Re: Teaming of Compaq NICs

"Fail on Fault" will cause the NIC to fail over ONCE, but if a second failure occurs (of any kind) it will NOT fail back to the other port.

"Smart-Switch" is meant to monitor the primary port so that if it comes back up, the NIC team will go back to the primary...
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