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NetBlaster ZX361-ISL User’s Guide Hardware: Installation
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NETBLASTER ZX361-ISL USER’SGUIDE
HARDWARE: INSTALLATION
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ZNYX’s ZX361-ISL Adapter is a PCI network
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rather than through a single 16 Mbps Token Ring
connection. When multiple clients access the server,
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normally caused by network congestion.
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bandwidth for even faster access. Multiple adapters
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features to your server. Using up to four ZX361-ISL
Adapters in your server, you can configure for
Enterprise-Level services such as Link Aggregation
(trunking), Load Balancing, and Fast Failover. Or,
you may choose to place a link on active standby for
automatic Failover activation. Whenever an active
network adapter, hub, Switch, router, port, or cable
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Windows®NT.
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incorporate both Ethernet and Token Ring
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allowing both Ethernet and Token Ring traffic to pass
over a single network link at high data rates. In the
past, this allowed Cisco Switches to be
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install only a maximum of (4) due to the limitations
of the operating system, available slots, and CPU
processing power. Each adapter has one port. You
must bind (connect) every port to a trunk.
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The purpose of a trunk, in this instance, is to allow
multiple VLANs to be addressed by single or
multiple ZX361-ISL Adapters. Trunks also allow
multiple adapters to be addressed by a single VLAN.
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VLANs:
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VLAN rule is overcome by creating Virtual NICs in
software and then binding the VNICs to the VLANs
on a one-for-one basis. It’s simple: If you have three
VLANs that must access the server, you will have to
create three VNICs (see Figure 2.2 on page 2-5).
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ZX361-ISL NIC (adapter) installed. There are three
VLANs in the network. To overcome the one-for-one
rule, you would open the RAINlink Control Panel (in
Windows NT) and create one trunk, plus three
RAINlink VNICs for that trunk. The VLANs would
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the server, and it is configured as a second port under
Trunk 1. The option of Aggregation is selected in the
Control Panel. Now the traffic from VLANs 1005, 1,
and 2 will be Load Balanced between the two
adapters.
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more ZX361-ISL Adapters. These two adapters serve
two other corporate VLANs where traffic is light but
the administrator wanted Failover between the two
adapters. The VLANs 1003 and 3 both travel over
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