D-Link DNS-340L User Manual - Page 208

Section 4 - Configuration Port Bonding Settings Port Bonding improves performance and reliability and makes use of the two LAN cards present in the DNS-340L. By connecting two cables connected to your router simultaneously the DNS-340L can be set to bond both connections to either distribute the bandwidth load, or have one LAN port serve as a backup to the main LAN port. To enable Port Bonding select the Enable option, and choose either Round Robin, Active Backup, Balance-XOR, Broadcast, 802.3ad, Adaptive Transmit Load Balancing, or Adaptive Load Balancing from the option modes. The different modes are explained below; Round Robin: This is a load balancing technique that distributes load in a circular fashion, thereby creating an evenly distributed load. Active Backup: Uses only one active slave to transmit packets. Balance-XOR: This mode balances outgoing traffic across the active ports based on hashed protocol header information and accepts incoming traffic from any active port. Broadcast: When ports are configured with broadcast mode, all slave ports transmits the same packets to the destination that way providing fault tolerance. 802.3ad: Creates aggregation groups that share the same speed and duplex settings. It is also called Link Aggregation Control Protocol. And it requires special switch support. Adaptive Channel bonding that does not require any special switch support. Transmit Load Balancing: Adaptive Load Includes adaptive transmit load balancing plus receive load balancing Balancing: for IPV4 traffic and does not require any special switch support. D-Link ShareCenter DNS-340L User Manual 206