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by seadogs

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I have a couple servers running windows 2k which have multiple nics. The onboard are 3com 10/100 and pci ones are Intel pro 100. One of them has onboard Intel as well. Right now I have them all connected to the network so that they look like network connection1, connection2 etc. when I ping the server I get the same single ip address. Is there a way to set them up for dynamic load balancing, and a way to check the status? I was told it happened automatically, but now am not so sure. Thanks!

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by cportman

Yes it will happen automatically. But you need to test it from multiple pc's. When you ping from your pc DNS resolves the name to an ip address, which gets put into your dns cache. Each additional ping reads off the cache and hits the same address. DNS server will give you a round-robin effect when multiple people try to ping.

good luck
cp

by seadogs

So to test this I should go to different pcs and ping the server name? Does this need to happen simultaneously? Can it be under the same login name or should it be under different logins as well? Thanks

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