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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

BACS

Number of teams 16

Number of adapters per team 8

Hot replace Yes

Hot add Yes

Hot remove Yes

Link speed support Different speeds

Frame protocol IP

Incoming packet management BASP

Outgoing packet management BASP

Failover event Loss of link or LiveLink event

Failover time <500 ms

Fallback time

1.5 s

(approximate)

LiveLink support Yes

MAC address Different

Multivendor teaming Yes

Generic Trunking

User interface BACS