Backbone

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Dan Moesch

In the process of setting up a server backbone. Having 2
seperate NIC's and IP schemes I want to manage server
traffic to one nic and client traffic to another. The
only I know of to do this is a host file.
Anyone know the best way?

Thanks,
Dan
 
In the process of setting up a server backbone. Having 2
seperate NIC's and IP schemes I want to manage server
traffic to one nic and client traffic to another. The
only I know of to do this is a host file.
Anyone know the best way?
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Host files work, sort of, but the real question is what server to
server traffic you actually have.

Jeff
 
I want to route all my server to server traffic through
the new NIC, the clients will use the existing NIC.
In this case, a host file would work, but is there a more
dynamic solution?

Dan
 
Interface Metrics.

Set the metric under TCP/IP properties of the 'client lan' NIC on each
server to 2. The server one will stay at 1. When windows calculates the
route to reach another server, it will see that the cost for going through
the 'client lan' is greater than the server lan and will send the traffic
out the server lan.
 
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