Dual NIC's

[Thomas Sylvester]

Hi:

I have a Winodws 2000 server & I want to increase the
overall simultanious thruput/availiblity for multiple
clients on my lan.

The Server is a Dell Poweredge & is connected to a 3Com
Superstack 3, 24 port 10/100 switch. The clients also
connect to the switch.

If I were to put a second / third NIC on the server & take
up 2 or 3 ports on the switch would this increase the
servers avalability for my clients.

When configuring multiple NIC's what should I be mindful
of. We use TCP/IP & netbui. Should all the cards have
the same ip? Would a client pathing to the server using
the servers name in the UNC (\\Server1\shared folder) find
the appropriate unsed card?

Thank you for your time.

 

[NuT CrAcKeR]

you need to set up adapter teaming on the server, and you switch has to
support port-trunking (diff vendors call it diff things).. but that is the
idea.

The team will have 1 IP.

The switch has to be manageable.

lose netbeui. That is probably doing more harm to your network than you
think. every packet that comes from the server will go out on each
protocol... it isnt routable... and if you "need it" for stuff to work, your
network isnt setup correctly.

NuTs

 

[Marc Reynolds [MSFT]]

Hi,

You should look into teaming NICs. What you are trying to accomplish cannot
be done unless you have teaming NICs.software.

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Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

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[NuT CrAcKeR]

you misread what he wrote.

he said NetBEUI ...

You dont new NetBEUI to do netbios over IP on ANY MS operating system.
NetBEUI is not routable, unless its encapsulated in another routable
protocol... but who would do that????

NuTs

 

[jazz]

yep, i did completly misread that. thanks for bringing it to my attention.