Hi Peter,
Peter wrote:
> Thank you for all previous information but i still have an outstanding
> question with regards NLB:
> What is the reason for not having both NIC cards on the same subnet,
> as on the configuration we require we only require the one IP range
> i.e. the NLB will be on the internal LAN and accessed by users
> locally and remotely by port mapping on the firewall, we also require
> good network connectivity between the domain with this machine so i
> would have thought the other card will be used for domain
> connectivity etc.
>
> Am i missing an important concept or will this method suffice
>
NLB means balancing between multiple machines.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...ng/nlbfaq.mspx
What you seem to search is Teaming of multiple NIC.
The problem of having multiple interfaces shown in the same subnet is based
on the way several services are acting in the context of name resolution.
This can easily fail on a multihomed system with several IP addresses in the
same subnet causing various connectivity issues.
See also here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;175767
Expected Behavior of Multiple Adapters on Same Network
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q166159/
Delay in NetBIOS connections from a multihomed computer
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=191611
Symptoms of multihomed browsers
are some of much more KB articles which explain the possible issues caused
by multihomed machines.
Best greetings from Germany
Olaf
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