Re: NLB Unicast vs. Multicast?

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"geek-y-guy" <noone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OrWwmNO3HHA.748@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi All: just starting to look at NLB, and I'm wondering when you would decide to use unicast vs. multicast? I see a lot of support notes about problems using unicast with single-adapter computers, but I don't understand why one would use one protocol over the other?

Lots of reasons, but mostly because lots of hardware does not support multicasting of non-multicast IP addresses.


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