Passport 8600 Trunking with Comapq server

[elassad]

I have a multi-homed Compag Proliant 3000 server with two 1 GB Comag NICs. and I have Nortel Paspport 8600 Swith, I tried to make a teaming to the two NICs with NT4 SP 5 server. the teaming go well, but I have more than 40 workstation a lot of them this couldn't ping the sever, but part of them is OK, we have a DHCP server no subnetting problem exist. sometimes, a workstion working for A WHILE IF ANY OTHER WORKSTATION GET IN THE SERVER, ONE OF ALREADY CONNECTED ONE IS DISCONNECTED !!!? i DONT kNOW WHY.
???
Secondly I try to mak a trunking of two ports that connected to this server ( as layer 2 ) at the Nortel Switch, but the teaming is not working at all ..???
so I need help ????

 

[jimbopalmer]

http://www25.nortelnetworks.com/library/csb/0109002.pdf

may be the info you are looking for, it describes HOW Nortel's Multilink trunking works in a Passport 1200 and the 8600 The one thing you can't give for your heart's desire is your heart. - Lois McMaster Bujold

 

[blaksplash]

do your two NICs have to have the same MAC address? in order to use MLT they must share the same MAC address.

 

[elassad]

I already have teaming with managed two NICs with only one MAC address. this the story