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Subject:    [THIN] Re: NLB with multicast configuration
From:       Felix Najer <felix.najer () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-06-23 19:02:29
Message-ID: 270e94830906231202td6b1a3aj21b836feed73541c () mail ! gmail ! com
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Indeed, Andre's setup also did work in our environment, including running on
ESX.
Kindest regards.

--Felix

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 07:25, Bohmer, Andre ten <Andre.tenBohmer@wur.nl>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > I am planning on setting up a 2 Node NLB cluster running windows 2003
> > TS.
> > My questions is what is the recommended configuration? And what changes
> > do I need to do on my cisco swictches?
> > Can this setup work with just one NIC or do I need two NICs
> I guess 'Multicast IGMP' , thus enabling host and nlb communication on the
> same nic/team and preventing switch flooding. On the Cisco switches we
> configured 'igmp snooping' and we had to add a static arp (unicast NLB IP
> address and multicast NLB mac address) to make it work.
>
> We have multiple NLB configurations, so for our situation it paid of to
> investigate and configure multicast igmp.
>
> Cheers,
> Andre
>

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Indeed, Andre&#39;s setup also did work in our environment, including running on \
ESX.<div><br></div><div>Kindest regards.</div><div><br></div><div>--Felix<br><br><div \
class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 07:25, Bohmer, Andre ten <span \
dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:Andre.tenBohmer@wur.nl">Andre.tenBohmer@wur.nl</a>&gt;</span> \
wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px \
#ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi,<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
&gt; I am planning on setting up a 2 Node NLB cluster running windows 2003<br>
&gt; TS.<br>
&gt; My questions is what is the recommended configuration? And what changes<br>
&gt; do I need to do on my cisco swictches?<br>
&gt; Can this setup work with just one NIC or do I need two NICs<br>
</div></div>I guess &#39;Multicast IGMP&#39; , thus enabling host and nlb \
communication on the<br> same nic/team and preventing switch flooding. On the Cisco \
switches we<br> configured &#39;igmp snooping&#39; and we had to add a static arp \
(unicast NLB IP<br> address and multicast NLB mac address) to make it work.<br>
<br>
We have multiple NLB configurations, so for our situation it paid of to<br>
investigate and configure multicast igmp.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<font color="#888888">Andre<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br></div>


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