nic cards load balancing

[cellspam]

HI all,

I have a windows 2003 with 2 nic cards, and i need to configure a load balancing for the traffic, how can i do this?

Regards

 

[Zelandakh]

It isn't called load balancing, it is teaming. Look to your NIC documentation on how to do it as they all do it differently.

 

[58sniper]

In many instances, you also have to install the teaming application from the NIC vendor. That may not have been installed when the NIC drivers were installed.

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[gbaughma]

Additionally, the switch that you're plugging the NICs into have to support teaming or FEC.


Just my 2¢

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[Zelandakh]

Good point I have taken as read Greg - thanks for pointing out.

 

[acl03]

Are these gigabit cards? Keep in mind, if you are doing this for additional throughput, that in many cases your bottleneck will be disk anyway. If this is the case, additional NICs will not increase your speed.



Thanks,
Andrew

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