Re: Newbie Question Dedicated IP

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From: Jeff (Jeff_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:03:03 -0800

Thanks for the answer.

"Ryan Sokolowski [Avanade]" wrote:

> Jeff,
>
> Regardless of the application running on top of NLB, the terms definitions
> will still refer to the same things. Dedicated IP means the static IP
> address for the physical NIC; the Virtual IP is the IP address that will be
> load-balanced between the two (or more) NLB nodes. This address DOESN'T
> necessarily need to be a valid EXTERNAL address in your case, as long as
> there are rules permitting traffic to reach the address (NAT, etc.).
>
> And yes, Tom does live and breathe ISA.
>
> --
> Ryan Sokolowski
> MCSE, CCNA, CCDA, BCFP
> Avanade
> http://www.Avanade.com
>
> "A troubleshooter's best tool is the Event Viewer and understanding the
> events and messages contained therein."
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>
> "Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]" <rod@die.spam.die.nw-america.com> wrote in
> message news:%23GsH%23q2GFHA.3640@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > Tom is an ISA god!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Rod
> >
> > MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
> > http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
> > http://msmvps.com/clustering - Blog
> >
> > "Russ Kaufmann" <russ@exchangemct.com> wrote in message
> > news:OCYdPw1GFHA.3076@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> >> "Jeff" <Jeff@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:5424DE3A-6461-49AA-8730-73D432AD2A91@microsoft.com...
> >>> First time dealing with NLB and am a little confused on the dedicated ip
> >>> meaning. I have 2 win2003 standard servers, each have 2 nics. I am going
> >>> to
> >>> run ISA 2000 on these. Where it talks about creating a virtual IP, I am
> >>> assuming this should be a valid external IP. (I host an exchange server
> >>> and a
> >>> couple websites). Then it says enter dedicated IP, I am assuming this is
> >>> the
> >>> actual IP of the external nic. So do I need 3 public IP's to make this
> >>> work?
> >>> 1 for the Virtual and 1 each for the 2 servers.
> >>
> >> Check Tom's article here, it will probably answer most of your questions.
> >>
> >> http://www.isaserver.org/articles/pptpnbpart1.html
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>

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