dual NIC cards

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I have a Win2k server that we just installed a second NIC
card in. Both NIC's are configured on the same segment
with static addresses. I'm finding that our server
monitoring tool loses connection to the server
periodically. In tracing traffic, we've noticed that
requests from our monitoring tool come in through the
primary NIC but sometimes try to answer on the secondary
NIC. Is there a way to force Win2k to respond back on
the same NIC card all the time and not try routing out on
the secondary NIC?

Thanks...
 
Is there any reason that you installed a 2nd NIC on the same subnet? Windows
2000 does not do any type of NIC load balancing so I don't understand what
benefits you are loking for by doing this.

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Marc Reynolds
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The reason for the second NIC is for separate ftp traffic
over SSL. For security reasons some of our other groups
wanted it coming in over a different NIC card than the
other internal traffic.
 
Ok, well you cannot route traffic based on protocol and this scheme does not
provide any "security". SSL traffic is already encrypted, but you could
probably use IPSec policies to further secure this traffic. You most
definitely should remove the 2nd NIC - you don't need it.

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Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

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What if you wanted to have traffic coming over two
separate NIC's for bandwidth purposes. Are you telling
me you can't have two NIC's on the same segment but have
them act independently? If that's the case, why would
new servers typically come with dual NIC'S. Also, we
have the same type of configuration on a few NT 4.0
servers and have not run into this problem.
 
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