Re: Intermittent Connection to NLB Servers

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From: Russ Kaufmann [MCT] (russ_at_exchangemct.nospam.com)
Date: 08/02/04 

Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 13:22:08 -0600

"ScottH" <ScottH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A444DA92-8C6C-4D95-9214-C23858B2A816@microsoft.com...
> We have them plugged into a hub to prevent flooding the switch. I don't
need the servers to talk to each other so I'm using unicast. This is the MS
recommendation for our setup.

The proper configuration for NLB with single NICs is to configure each using
multicast.

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