Talk to me about "Dual" network cards in Win 2K environment

[Bobot]

Just curious -

I see these "dual" network cards for servers. What is the general strategy and implementation on how these make access to the server faster or more efficient?

Thanks!

- Bob

 

[jtb]

dual nics allows a number of interesting things--like separate VLANs for management (SNMP traps, for example) and production traffic. Alternately, one could run some sort of load-balanced networking thing, separate virtual web servers, etc...

hint: just be sure whether you want routing on or off...

There are as many strategies as there are potential subnets... and each one is better than the last, depending on how you line 'em up... :-D JTB
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[epohl]

Don't forget simply teaming them to turn a 100mbps connection into 200 mbps.

 

[Bobot]

But for a small to medium sized environment of office or database users, it's not real significant or required, is it?

- Bob

 

[bschneider987]

No, not real significant or required for a small business.