RE: 4 NET WORK CARDS IN ONE SERVER
Just plug and go...W2K is Plug and Play and works quite well..better than Win9x ever was. I too am curious as to why you would take this route. If you are trying to run FEC and aggregrate bandwidth then be sure to distribute the cards across all of the buses on the motherboard otherwise you will only accomplish some fault tolerance. I have done some extensive performance tests of aggregating 100Mbs cards using FEC (Fast Ether ChannelThis was the Intel Server Card) and the increased CPU load managing the FEC negated the minimal increase in throughput...not to mention the major Disk Array bottleneck. Patrick -Original Message-From: L Reid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 9:51 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: 4 NET WORK CARDS IN ONE SERVER How do I set up four network cards in one NT 2000 server? Is there a book that you know of? Thanks in advance guys= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =[EMAIL PROTECTED]= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Do You Yahoo!?Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays!
RE: 4 NET WORK CARDS IN ONE SERVER
I have done some extensive performance tests of aggregating 100Mbs cards using FEC (Fast Ether ChannelThis was the Intel Server Card) and the increased CPU load managing the FEC negated the minimal increase in throughput...not to mention the major Disk Array bottleneck. I've got to agree here. NT has never been known as a "bandwidth-taxing" OS, unlike NetWare. Remember that 100 mbps equates to about 9 megabytes per second, in each direction if full duplex. Not much reason to go beyond 2 NICs, in my opinion. FEC with 2 cards is a good idea for redundancy, but the last time I checked, the channel ports needed to be on the same line card of the switch. If you've got redundant switches, FEC won't help with 2 NICs. If you're doing redundant switches, the 3Com and Intel "virtual address" teaming methods seem to work good. They give immediate fail over if a NIC fails, and they do load balancing in transmitting. Chuck Church CCNP, CCDP, MCNE, MCSE Sr. Network Engineer Magnacom Technologies 140 N. Rt. 303 Valley Cottage, NY 10989 845-267-4000 x218 _ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: 4 NET WORK CARDS IN ONE SERVER
I think that you can do this if you have 4 different subnet addresses to use. I have only tried it with two using Advanced Server. If and when you do, watch what choices you make because the Server may try to become a rudimentary router for IP RIP, OSPF, IPX etc.not sure if that is what you want. Winston. -Original Message- From: L Reid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 3:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 4 NET WORK CARDS IN ONE SERVER How do I set up four network cards in one NT 2000 server? Is there a book that you know of? Thanks in advance guys = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! _ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: 4 NET WORK CARDS IN ONE SERVER
if your using compaq/3com/intel you can nic teaming.i.e using muliple cards acting as one.400 instead of 100 meg steve From: "Shaw, Winston Mr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "Shaw, Winston Mr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'L Reid'" [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: 4 NET WORK CARDS IN ONE SERVER Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 09:10:53 +0100 I think that you can do this if you have 4 different subnet addresses to use. I have only tried it with two using Advanced Server. If and when you do, watch what choices you make because the Server may try to become a rudimentary router for IP RIP, OSPF, IPX etc.not sure if that is what you want. Winston. -Original Message- From: L Reid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 3:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 4 NET WORK CARDS IN ONE SERVER How do I set up four network cards in one NT 2000 server? Is there a book that you know of? Thanks in advance guys = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! _ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. _ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4 NET WORK CARDS IN ONE SERVER
just throw them into the pci slots (if there are that many)...and just go from there... but why 4?...i can see 2...one for the LAN and one for the redunduncy...or as a firewall but 4??...do tell.. Deepak L Reid wrote: How do I set up four network cards in one NT 2000 server? Is there a book that you know of? Thanks in advance guys = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays!
Re: 4 NET WORK CARDS IN ONE SERVER
Install them and then the add drivers toeach card. I usually add one at a time so I know which card has what IP address. If you are adding them all to the same network, you are wasting your time. "L Reid" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... How do I set up four network cards in one NT 2000 server? Is there a book that you know of? Thanks in advance guys= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =[EMAIL PROTECTED]= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Do You Yahoo!?Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays!
