Teaming NICS in Win2k ADV Server
Teaming NICS in Win2k ADV Server
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hi running windows 2k adv server, and im running 2 100 bit belkin nic cards, is there a way to team up the nic cards and make it so they only have 1 ip adresse, thus making it like a 200mbps virtual nic card?
RE: Teaming NICS in Win2k ADV Server
RE: Teaming NICS in Win2k ADV Server
actually you can have teams of up to 8 NICs on cisco switches, which obviously takes up a lot of ports, but allows for more throughput, load balancing, and redundancy.
RE: Teaming NICS in Win2k ADV Server
It's matter of the cards. Their driver has to support "trunking".
And this team works only when its NICs are connected to a managable switch, which supports "trunking" too.
My configuration is:
Compaq NC312x NICs ( ~ 4 $ on eBay )
3Com 3300 and 3900 Switch ( each of them supports up to two trunks with four NICs each )
RE: Teaming NICS in Win2k ADV Server