NLB between 2 NIC's on one Server

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Is it possible to NLB between 2 NIC's located on one server? If on NIC
fails, have it automatically fail over to the other? thanks,
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Gabe Matteson said:
Is it possible to NLB between 2 NIC's located on one server? If on NIC
fails, have it automatically fail over to the other? thanks,
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Not really -- without special "teaming NIC" drivers they don't
really work together or completely correctly either.

You could write a script to detect the issue and reconfigure but
that is neither seamless nor really trivial. (not that hard either.)

Have you had a lot of NICs fail?
 
No, this is not possible to do with NLB. You need teaming NICs and the
corresponding teaming NIC software.

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Sorry but NLB will not work this way. What you probably want is a NIC
teaming solution.

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team it using a program that allows those nics to be teamed... set it up as
a fault tolerant team
 
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