Windows 2003 network load balancing

Hello everybody,
i have a windows 2003 server with 2 network interface cards and i'd like to
install network load balancing feature but i need some suggestions.

Suppose i'm in 192.168.1.0 subnet, and let's say i want to use 192.168.1.11
as cluster IP.

1- Do i have to enable network load balancing on both NICs?
2- How should i set IP addresses of NIC cards? I mena should i set
192.168.1.12 & .13 for dedicated IP and use .11 for cluster or what else?

thanks

fabrizio Bocci

Network load balancing - windows2003 - Try these links:

1.)
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...003/all/techre
f/en-us/Default.asp?url=/Resources/Documentation/windowsserv/2003/all/techre
f/en-us/w2k3tr_nlb_tools.asp

2.)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...ring/default.m
spx

Hope this helps
regards
Hrishi
MSFT

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Unfortunatly it doesn't help much......... cannot get informations out of it


"Fabrizio Bocci" <(E-Mail Removed)> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello everybody,
> i have a windows 2003 server with 2 network interface cards and i'd like
> to install network load balancing feature but i need some suggestions.
>
> Suppose i'm in 192.168.1.0 subnet, and let's say i want to use
> 192.168.1.11 as cluster IP.
>
> 1- Do i have to enable network load balancing on both NICs?
> 2- How should i set IP addresses of NIC cards? I mena should i set
> 192.168.1.12 & .13 for dedicated IP and use .11 for cluster or what else?
>
> thanks
>
> fabrizio Bocci
>
>
>
>
>

Network load balancing is for balancing the load between different
machines, not different network cards.

Spreading the load over two network cards on one machine is NIC teaming.
It is not done through the operating system. It is done by the NIC drivers
and is only supported on NICs designed for the purpose.

"Fabrizio Bocci" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Unfortunatly it doesn't help much......... cannot get informations out of
> it
>
>
> "Fabrizio Bocci" <(E-Mail Removed)> ha scritto nel messaggio
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hello everybody,
>> i have a windows 2003 server with 2 network interface cards and i'd like
>> to install network load balancing feature but i need some suggestions.
>>
>> Suppose i'm in 192.168.1.0 subnet, and let's say i want to use
>> 192.168.1.11 as cluster IP.
>>
>> 1- Do i have to enable network load balancing on both NICs?
>> 2- How should i set IP addresses of NIC cards? I mena should i set
>> 192.168.1.12 & .13 for dedicated IP and use .11 for cluster or what else?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> fabrizio Bocci
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

OK but then why Windows 2003 have a 2 NICs procedure for setting up NLB??

"Bill Grant" <not.available@online> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Network load balancing is for balancing the load between different
> machines, not different network cards.
>
> Spreading the load over two network cards on one machine is NIC
> teaming. It is not done through the operating system. It is done by the
> NIC drivers and is only supported on NICs designed for the purpose.
>
> "Fabrizio Bocci" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Unfortunatly it doesn't help much......... cannot get informations out of
>> it
>>
>>
>> "Fabrizio Bocci" <(E-Mail Removed)> ha scritto nel messaggio
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> Hello everybody,
>>> i have a windows 2003 server with 2 network interface cards and i'd like
>>> to install network load balancing feature but i need some suggestions.
>>>
>>> Suppose i'm in 192.168.1.0 subnet, and let's say i want to use
>>> 192.168.1.11 as cluster IP.
>>>
>>> 1- Do i have to enable network load balancing on both NICs?
>>> 2- How should i set IP addresses of NIC cards? I mena should i set
>>> 192.168.1.12 & .13 for dedicated IP and use .11 for cluster or what
>>> else?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> fabrizio Bocci
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

"Fabrizio Bocci" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> OK but then why Windows 2003 have a 2 NICs procedure for setting up NLB??

For Proxy Servers that operate in a "proxy array". Proxys, by nature,
usually have two NICs. But the NLB is still focused on clustering two
machines, not two NICs. The Windows NLB is the same thing as "Server
Clustering", it is just a different name for the same thing.

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