I've got a netgear with 4 1Gb ports and two W2K3 servers, each with two Gb NICs. The switch has a 12Gb backbone. I want to create a 2Gb pipeline from server A to server B through the switch. All NICs are on the same subnet (xxx.xxx.xxx.1 and 2 for server A; xxx.xxx.xxx.254 and 253 for server B) Other than configuring the switch for trunking, is there anything else I need to do server-side to make this work?
2007-03-01 11:19:54 · 1 answers · asked by antirion 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
As long as you have 2 different IP address on the 2 NICs, they'll be treated as 2 separate connections. You may want to bridge the 2 NICs together and give it 1 virtual IP address.
I don't think you need to configure trunking since all 4 NICs are going to be on the same subnet and VLAN.
2007-03-01 12:19:32 · answer #1 · answered by OE "800" 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋