# Other Advanced Features

- Quality of Service (QoS)

- Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

- DMI, WMI Management Software Support

- Save and Restore

## Quality of Service (QoS)

QoS allows the adapter to send and receive IEEE 802.3ac tagged frames. 802.3ac tagged frames include 802.1p priority-tagged frames and 802.1Q VLAN-tagged frames. In order to implement QoS, the adapter must be connected to a switch that supports and is configured for QoS. Priority-tagged frames allow real-time programs to make the most efficient use of network bandwidth. High priority packets are processed before lower priority packets.

In order to implement QoS, the adapter must be connected to a switch that supports and is configured for 802.1p QoS.

Tagging is enabled and disabled in the "Advanced Settings" tab of the Intel PROSet control panel utility. You must set "QoS Packet Tagging" to "Enabled".

Windows 2000 has its own utility for 802.1p packet prioritization. For more information on the Windows 2000 utility, see the Windows 2000 system help. Use the "Index" tab and search for the term "QoS". Select the topic "Windows 2000 Administration Tools."

### Supported Operating Systems

- Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP

## Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a protocol for managing networks via messages (called "Traps") sent from SNMP-compliant network components and collected by one or more servers. The provided SNMP utilities install the Intel SNMP client agent available for Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP), Linux and NetWare. This utility should only be employed by experienced network administrators. Additional software/services must be installed on your network prior to installing the Intel SNMP agent.

#### Supported Operating Systems

- Microsoft Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP Professional)

- Linux

You can install the SNMP agent by double-clicking Intel(R) LAN Adapters SNMP Agent.msi.

- If you are running a 32-bit operating system, use the file located in the SNMP\Agent\Windows\IA32 directory.

- If you are running a 64-bit operating system, use the file located in the SNMP\Agent\Windows\Itanium directory.

Once installed, you can view additional information in \Program Files\Intel\ilansnmp\.

## DMI, WMI Management Software Support

Optional management software is also available in this release:

- The DMI 2.0 Service Provider (SP) and Client Instrumentation 3.0 for Windows (CI) are updated software modules that allow standards-based DMI 2.0 applications, including Intel's LANDesk(R) Client Manager, to monitor the status of PCI adapters. This software can be installed using the Intel® PRO Intelligent Installer on the Intel CD. It is also located under \WINDOWS\DMI\WIN32 and \WINDOWS\DMI\WIN32_SP (Service Provider software).

- For DMI-SNMP information for Windows NT, see the dmiwin.txt file in the \WINDOWS\DMI\WIN32 directory.

- The WMI Provider for 32-bit operating systems can be installed using:

  - The Intel PRO Intelligent Installer on the Intel CD

  - Setup.exe in the \WINDOWS\WBEM\WMI\IBA directory (Boot Agent version)

  - Setup.exe in the \WINDOWS\WBEM\WMI\NIC\IA32 directory (Adapter version)

| NOTE: DMI is supported on Windows NT 4.0 SP3, 95, 98, 2000, ME, and XP Professional.
| NOTE: WMI instrumentation does not support VLANs.

## Save and Restore

This feature gives you the option of copying the current configuration settings in Intel PROSet to an external file (such as on a floppy disk) as a backup measure. In the event of a hard drive failure, the restore feature will reinstate most of your former settings. (This feature does not save/restore the network drivers or the protocol addresses.)

Restoring network configuration settings can only be done on the same system (with the same configuration) on which the save was performed.

| NOTE: Only Intel PROSet settings (including teaming and VLANs) are saved. The adapter's IP address is not stored along with network configuration settings.

More information on Save/Restore can be found in the Intel PROSet online help.

### Supported Operating Systems

- Windows (98SE, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, XP)

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