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Network Load Balancing & Outbound Source IP's

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Sep 20, 1999
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I have a 2-node WLBS cluster. Each node has two NIC's. All NIC's are cabled into a single hub which has a dedicated switch port. I'm using multicast and I have the MaskSourceMac registry entry set to 0.

The site functions as needed for balancing web traffic from the internet, but I'm noticing that all traffic to internal servers uses the virtual IP of the cluster as the source IP address, instead of the individual dedicated IP's of the nodes. This is causing trouble for some of our internal
applications (specifically MSMQ).

I'd like to know how one might force the cluster nodes to use their dedicated IP's for traffic that they initiate to other internal servers. The binding order is appropriate: the NLB adapter is lower on the bindings list on both servers than the Public LAN adapter is.

TIA,

Dave Shackelford

 
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