3 NICs in the same box in the same subnet and only default to use 1 nic... ???

[Joe M]

If I have three NIC (Network cards) in a computer in the same subnet, with
Ip address 192.168.100.18 , 192.168.100.20, 192.168.100.22
255.255.255.0. Can I specified the default network card to use by:

192.168.100.18 default gateway: 192.168.100.18 metric 1, then Internet
default gateway: 192.168.100.241 metric 2.

And the 192.168.100.20 nic & 192.168.100.22 nic would only run when services
call's it run.. Would this works nicely and cause no problems??

 

[Charles]

What you can do is enable the load balancing on your 3 NIC
so you will have only 1 IP address. There is a few
software can do this. Also Windows 2000 Adv. Server and
Data Center ave their own load balancing software.


Charles

 

[Joe M]

Thanks Charles, I have three Win2k Advanced Server DC each with 3 nics.
What would be your advice about putting them in a Cluster with multicast
mode, and how do I configure each of the three ip address for each Nic in a
DC?
Have you actually done any clustering yourself, how do they run?? Because I
heard that there's lots of problems and pains about running in a cluster...