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).
