Re: Compatible Switched

From: Desmond Lam (deslam_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:32:41 +0800

Network adaptors for NLB hosts in a single cluster must all be on the same
broadcast subnet and connected to each other through either a hub or switch

If you are using switch to connect the hosts, it must be a level 2 rather
than level 3 or higher because all the hosts share same IP address (cluster
IP), and Level 3 switches direct network packets (incoming requests)
according to the IP address of the destination computer.

Hope it helps
Desmond

"steve" <steve@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F1D27B3C-0210-4EFF-81F2-D2AE5C95A397@microsoft.com...
>I recently installed NLB and came across the following problem: I am using
>is
> a Linksys 2024 Gigabyte swtich which seems to remember which port is
> associated with a particular MAC address, as a result when I brought a
> second
> host into the cluster the first host would no longer respond to the
> cluster.
>
> I have rectified this by placing a dedicated hub between the switch and
> the
> cluster and evertything works fine. The dedicated hub is a pre-historic
> 10mbps creature that needs to be replaced. My problem is that I want to
> make
> sure before buying a replacement that it will not suffer the same problems
> as
> the Linksys switch.
>
> Is there a list of switches/hubs which are known to be OK, or is there a
> name to the "feature" of the Linksys switch which I can avoid buying next
> time ?
> --
> Any help truly appreciated.
>

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