Teaming NICS in Win2k ADV Server

[LittleBill21]

hi running windows 2k adv server, and im running 2 100 bit belkin nic cards, is there a way to team up the nic cards and make it so they only have 1 ip adresse, thus making it like a 200mbps virtual nic card?

 

[jpm121]

You can assign two IP addresses to a single card but cannot assign one IP address to two cards. This is a violation of the TCP/IP standards and will cause havoc with your network.

 

[ilpadrino]

with cisco switches, it is definitely possible to team adapters, but you would have to get NICs that are capable. i don't know much about belkin, but the 3com's in my HP netserver are easily configurable to this. i'm moving toward this right now....

actually you can have teams of up to 8 NICs on cisco switches, which obviously takes up a lot of ports, but allows for more throughput, load balancing, and redundancy.

 

[ArndtKl]

ilpadrino is quite right.

It's matter of the cards. Their driver has to support "trunking".

And this team works only when its NICs are connected to a managable switch, which supports "trunking" too.

My configuration is:
Compaq NC312x NICs ( ~ 4 $ on eBay )
3Com 3300 and 3900 Switch ( each of them supports up to two trunks with four NICs each )

 

[LittleBill21]

allright kewl, now as long as i have a trunking capable switch it will work, as long as i have the right nics of course, what would happen if it didn't have a trunk-able switch?