Re: Network Bridge

Setting up two NICS in a bridge configuration and plugging them both into
the same switch is a bad idea. You will not get any more bandwidth, if it
works at all it would be slower, not faster. You will have created a loop at
MAC layer level. If you have a 1Gb NIC, then you are very unlikly to need
any more bandwidth anyway, unless you have an atypical setup.

Mal Osborne
MCSE MVP Mensa

"Barak Webb" <pai_bmwebb at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23mdU%23YndFHA.688@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Actually, under MS Windows Server 2003 it is called network bridge and is
> available out of the box.. No extra software is needed and no expensive
> server NIC is needed. Apparently MS stripped it out of SBS thinking that
> no one would want to bridge connections together using just regular old
> network adaptors. Attached is a screen shot of the screen in 2k3 server
> show that it is available as an OS option.
>
>
> "Steve Foster [SBS MVP]" <steve.foster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:xn0e3mrdk1iwzcv000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Barak Webb wrote:
>>
>>> I am testing SBS 2k3 before I deploy to a client.
>>> I have 2 network cards in the system. One of them is a dual port card
>> (so esentially I have 3 cards.) I would like to bridge the dual port
>> card
>> to double bandwidth to the LAN but do not see network bridge under
>> network
>> options.
>>> I know the feature is available with Windows Server 2003 but do not see
>> it in SBS2k3.
>>
>> This is usually called Teaming. It's a feature of the nic drivers rather
>> than the OS. The dual port adapter documentation should explain how to
>> configure the feature if it's supported.
>>
>> "Network bridge" means something else entirely.
>>
>> --
>> Steve Foster [SBS MVP]
>> ---------------------------------------
>> MVPs do not work for Microsoft. Please reply only to the newsgroups.
>
>
>


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