User guide

NetXtreme II User Guide
September 2013
Broadcom Corporation
Page 288 Configuring Teaming Document INGSRVT78-CDUM100-R
Read the following notes before you attempt to configure LiveLink.
NOTES:
• Before you begin configuring LiveLink™, review the description of LiveLink. Also verify that each probe target
you plan to specify is available and working. If the IP address of the probe target changes for any reason,
LiveLink must be reconfigured. If the MAC address of the probe target changes for any reason, you must restart
the team (see the “Troubleshooting” topic in the NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide ).
• A probe target must be on the same subnet as the team, have a valid (not a broadcast, multicast, or unchaste),
statically-assigned IP address, and be highly available (always on).
• To ensure network connectivity to the probe target, ping the probe target from the team.
• You can specify up to four probe targets.
• The IP address assigned to either a probe target or team member cannot have a zero as the first or last octet.
To configure LiveLink
1. From the Teams menu, select Edit Team.
2. Click Expert Mode (to configure LiveLink using the Teaming Wizard, see Using the Broadcom Teaming Wizard).
3. In the Manage Teams window, click the Edit Team tab.
4. Select Enable LiveLink. The LiveLink Configuration options appear below.
5. It is recommended to accept the default values for Probe interval (the number of seconds between each retransmission
of a link packet to the probe target) and Probe maximum retries (the number of consecutively missed responses from
a probe target before a failover is triggered). To specify different values, click the desired probe interval in the Probe
interval (seconds) list and click the desired maximum number of probe retries in the Probe maximum retries list.
6. Set the Probe VLAN ID to correspond with the VLAN where the probe target(s) resides. This will apply the appropriate
VLAN tag to the link packet based on the shared configuration of the attached switch port(s).
NOTE: Each LiveLink enabled team can only communicate with Probe Targets on a single VLAN. Also, VLAN ID 0
is equivalent to an untagged network.
7. Select Probe Target 1 and type the target IP address for one or all probe targets.
NOTE: Only the first probe target is required. You can specify up to 3 additional probe targets to serve as backups
by assigning IP addresses to the other probe targets.
8. Select one of the listed team members and type the member IP address.
NOTE: All of the member IP addresses must be in the same subnet as the probe targets.
9. Click Update. Repeat these steps for each of the other listed team members.
10. Click Apply/Exit.