The DFE-570TX card supports many other OS's including Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Netware, Unix, Linux.

If you wish to install special features like load balancing or trunking, you must be running Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000.

Linux has built-in features for bundling ports together using the same IP address, thereby, providing support for load balancing.

Netware 5 also supports (in a servicepack) the functions of load balancing and fault tolerance.