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Browse All TopicsI need to Team two Intel pro/1000 onboard nic's into a 2GB RLB via two trunked ACLP ports on my switch, but the option in the intel pro/1000 setup screan for team with other adapters is grayed out. I cant find any documentation on either the Intel site or the SuperMicro site for resolving the grayed out portion. both nics are enabled, and i have tested both individually to send and receive traffic.
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This motherboard has the 82563EB controller chip for the onboard nics. This overview for it states
"Allows easy scaling to multiple LAN ports by teaming with Intel® PRO/1000 Server Adapters"
which I read as a separate network adapter added to a pci slot.
http://download.intel.com/
Now i'm at the point where the operation was a success but the patient died.
I was able to team the nics, by first enabling ACLP trunking at the switch. The grayed out portion on the nics dissapaerd and i was able to join the nics into an 802.1ad teaming schema, but they are staying at 1GB not 2GB and now i can not ping in or out, but both nics and the team all register as up up. Diagnostic all say everything is as it should be except no traffic gets in or out. see first sentance. by the way i'm using a linksys 2024p managed switch.
You may be closer than you think. Check if the NICs are set for auto-negotiation. This would work with the switches LACP.
If it is already using auto-negotiation, then the switch may have to be set up using Static trunking, and perhaps disabling auto negotiation on the NICS rather than use LACP .
P.S. you still haven't asked a moderator to reopen the question.
Static trunking and disable auto negotiate on the nics. The settings for flow control, duplex mode, and remote fault information will have to be set manually when running without autonegotiate.
If this doesn't work then the Nics probably cannot be teamed without adding a Nic adapter to the motherboard as stated in the 82563EB pdf posted earlier. There is more than likely an issue within the controller or its driver that won't allow this.
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by: sparkmakerPosted on 2007-11-05 at 08:11:12ID: 20217095
What is the motherboard model ??