Is Windows 10 Software NIC Teaming now possible?

-- EDIT 5/4/16 --

This has been disabled in the most recent version of Windows 10 as well as the insider build 14295. The powershell command will error out or say that LBFO is not supported on the current SKU depending on the versin of Windows you are running. Hopefully MS will re-enable this feature sometime soon.

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Yes, This is possible! To anyone else who found this post by Googling:

I haven't found a way to access this though a GUI, but running the following PowerShell command will create a team for you. Just replace the Ethernet names with your NIC names.

New-NetLbfoTeam TheATeam "Ethernet","Ethernet 6"

You should then get a 2GBs Switch Independent team. From there you can use the Network Connections screen to set it up how you want.

Screenshot of networks and Team


It seems this feature is coming back, at least for Intel NICs:

Intel mentions teaming support for Windows 10 in driver versions 22.3 or newer. Currently 23.5 is available.

This version comes with ANS (advanced network services, installed by default) which should allow teaming via powershell commands.

I havent tried it yet - the only mainboard I have with two intel nic's is a bit bios upgrade stubborn.

If anyone could get this to work with the latest windows creator update mentioned in the release notes, let me know :)

Update: tried link aggregation on Windows 10 - so currently it works (Jan 2019)

PS C:\Windows\system32> Import-Module -Name "C:\Program Files\Intel\Wired Networking\IntelNetCmdlets\IntelNetCmdlets"

PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-IntelNetAdapter

Location        Name                                                           ConnectionName            LinkStatus
--------        ----                                                           --------------            ----------
0:31:6:0        Intel(R) Ethernet Connection (2) I219-LM                       Intel-219                 Nicht verf...
7:0:0:0         Intel(R) I210 Gigabit Network Connection                       Intel-210                 1.00 Gbit/...

PS C:\Windows\system32> New-IntelNetTeam

Cmdlet New-IntelNetTeam an der Befehlspipelineposition 1
Geben Sie Werte fuer die folgenden Parameter an:
TeamMemberNames[0]: Intel(R) Ethernet Connection (2) I219-LM
TeamMemberNames[1]: Intel(R) I210 Gigabit Network Connection
TeamMemberNames[2]:
TeamMode: StaticLinkAggregation
TeamName: link_name_team

PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-IntelNetTeam

TeamName         : Gruppe:  link_name_team
TeamMembers      : {Intel(R) I210 Gigabit Network Connection, Intel(R) 
Ethernet Connection (2) I219-LM}
TeamMode         : StaticLinkAggregation
PrimaryAdapter   : NotSet
SecondaryAdapter : NotSet

An iperf3 run from two clients shows it seems to work:

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