User guide

User Guide NetXtreme II
September 2013
Broadcom Corporation
Document INGSRVT78-CDUM100-R Executive Summary Page 21
interrupt processing. The intermediate driver fits between the miniport driver and the protocol layer multiplexing several
miniport driver instances, and creating a virtual adapter that looks like a single adapter to the NDIS layer. NDIS provides a
set of library functions to enable the communications between either miniport drivers or intermediate drivers and the protocol
stack. The protocol stack implements IP, IPX and ARP. A protocol address such as an IP address is assigned to each
miniport device instance, but when an Intermediate driver is installed, the protocol address is assigned to the virtual team
adapter and not to the individual miniport devices that make up the team.
The Broadcom supplied teaming support is provided by three individual software components that work together and are
supported as a package. When one component is upgraded, all the other components must be upgraded to the supported
versions. Table 3 describes the four software components and their associated files for supported operating systems.
Table 3: Broadcom Teaming Software Component
Software
Component
Broadcom Name Network Adapter/Operating System
System
Architecture
Windows File
Name
Virtual Bus Driver
(VBD)
BCM5706, BCM5708, BCM5709 32-bit bxvbdx.sys
BCM5706, BCM5708, BCM5709 64-bit bxvbda.sys
BCM57710, BCM57711, BCM57712,
BCM57840
32-bit evbdx.sys
BCM57710, BCM57711, BCM57712,
BCM57840
64-bit evbda.sys
Windows Server 2012 64-bit bxnd60a.sys
Miniport Driver Broadcom Base Driver Windows Server 2008 (NDIS 6.0) 32-bit bxnd60x.sys
Windows Server 2008 (NDIS 6.0) 64-bit bxnd60a.sys
Windows Server 2008 R2 (NDIS 6.0) 64-bit bxnd60a.sys
Windows Server 2012 64-bit basp.sys
Intermediate
Driver
Broadcom Advanced
Server Program
(BASP)
Windows Server 2008 32-bit, 64-bit basp.sys
Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit basp.sys
Configuration
User Interface
Broadcom Advanced
Control Suite (BACS)
Windows Server 2008 – bacs.exe
Windows Server 2008 R2 – bacs.exe
Windows Server 2012 – bacs.exe