Load Balance Fail Over (LBFO) ?

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hi,all
can any body explain the concept of Load Balancing Fail Over(LBFO) in detail.
and also the concept of Primary and secondary miniports.I am going thru NDIS
intermediate driver (passthru)(ntddk\src\network\ndis\passthru)

thanks
mallu

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Load Balancing is basically a feature which help in distributing the load
over many miniports NICS that you may have on the system

Failover is basically redundancy, when one nic down the other takes over.,
There are some constraints’s to this such what one one nic must have a
binding and many more.

Then you need an aggregator, which is the bound master NIC and other ports
are basically other nics in the aggreagation, you can multiple aggreagations
with one aggregator nic for each aggregation.

We have implemented LBFO here but with our own design with an export driver
to comminucate with our base nic driver and we have found many advantages of
this technique over using the NDIS calls to make a LBFO driver.

Downside - it’s taken 9 months to get in “good” condition.

  • point good features and very portable across other OS’s. and can directly
    interact with our driver.

Ramit.
----- Original Message -----
From: “shiva mallu”
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Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 12:20 PM
Subject: [ntdev] Load Balance Fail Over (LBFO) ?

hi,all
can any body explain the concept of Load Balancing Fail Over(LBFO) in
detail.
and also the concept of Primary and secondary miniports.I am going thru NDIS
intermediate driver (passthru)(ntddk\src\network\ndis\passthru)

thanks
mallu

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