Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Intel ANS probe

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 08:57:41 -0500 (CDT)
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Ebeling, Lars wrote:

> I'm a newbie at Ethereal. When testing it I see a lot of frames containing
> "Intel ANS probe". Could anyone tell me what that is.

ANS is Intel's "Advanced Networking Services," which provides load
balancing, aggregation, and failover for their line of NICs:

    http://www.intel.com/support/network/adapter/ans/teaming.htm

I'm pretty sure the probes are used for fault tolerance, and they may be
used for load balancing.  I don't think they're used for link aggregation
as it appears to be an implementation of EtherChannel (which doesn't use
probe packets AFAIK).