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Saving and Restoring a Configuration

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To configure LiveLink 1. Click the Team Management button at the bottom of the BACS 3 window, or from the View menu, select Navigate, then Team Management. 2. Select the Smart Load Balance and Failover or SLB (Auto-Fallback Disable) team. 3. From the Teams menu, select Edit Team. 4. Click Expert Mode (to configure LiveLink using the Teaming Wizard, see Using the Broadcom Teaming Wizard). 5. In the Manage Teams window, click the Edit Team tab. 6. Select Enable LiveLink. The LiveLink Configuration options appear below. 7. 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. 8. 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. 9. 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. 10. 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. 11. Click Update. Repeat these steps for each of the other listed team members. 12. Click Apply/Exit. Saving and Restoring a Configuration To save a configuration 1. From the File menu, select Team Save As. 2. Type the path and file name of the new configuration file, and then click Save (a .bcg extension is added).

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To configure LiveLink
1. Click the
Team Management
button at the bottom of the BACS 3 window, or from the
View
menu, select
Navigate
, then
Team Management
.
2. Select the Smart Load Balance and Failover or SLB (Auto-Fallback Disable) team.
3. From the
Teams
menu, select
Edit Team
.
4. Click Expert Mode (to configure LiveLink using the Teaming Wizard, see
Using the Broadcom Teaming Wizard
).
5. In the Manage Teams window, click the
Edit Team
tab.
6. Select
Enable LiveLink
. The LiveLink Configuration options appear below.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. Click
Update
. Repeat these steps for each of the other listed team members.
12. Click
Apply/Exit
.
Saving and Restoring a Configuration
To save a configuration
1. From the
File
menu, select
Team Save As
.
2. Type
the path and file name of the new configuration file
, and then click
Save
(a .bcg extension is added).