Two NIC cards, one network

Hi,

Is there an easy way to setup my windows 2003 server to utilize both NIC
cards in the server on one network? Right now with both of them configured
if I look at the network utilization one is between 15% and 25% all day and
the other sits around 1%. How can I get both of the cards to be used at
once?

Thanks.

Meinolf
Wed Mar 05 07:49:17 PST 2008

Hello Tim,

Depends on your hardware, check for TEAMING software. HP for has teaming
software for all servers.

Best regards

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> Hi,
>
> Is there an easy way to setup my windows 2003 server to utilize both
> NIC cards in the server on one network? Right now with both of them
> configured if I look at the network utilization one is between 15% and
> 25% all day and the other sits around 1%. How can I get both of the
> cards to be used at once?
>
> Thanks.
>

John
Wed Mar 05 15:23:33 PST 2008

If it is a desktop PC I expect it would be unlikely that you could use NIC
Teaming which is usually configurable with HP/Dell/IBM server systems.


if you startup a command prompt and do "route print" you should see the
default route 0.0.0.0 going via a preferred interface. To make traffic go
through the other interface e.g to a file server you could try
file server=x.x.x.x
default gw= y.y.y.y
route add x.x.x.x mask 255.255.255.255 y.y.y.y IF 2

where IF 2 would be the second interface card.

This would make traffic towards the file server go via the second interface
and all other traffic go through the 1st.

At least it a theory.

Good Luck and I hope this helps.



"Tim Lewis" <tilewis@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:ADDFF2AC-58E6-4BDB-BDEE-44F15DD15114@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> Is there an easy way to setup my windows 2003 server to utilize both NIC
> cards in the server on one network? Right now with both of them
> configured if I look at the network utilization one is between 15% and 25%
> all day and the other sits around 1%. How can I get both of the cards to
> be used at once?
>
> Thanks.

lforbes
Sun Mar 16 17:46:04 PDT 2008

If teaming doesn't work you can always create a network bridge. I have done
that with my Windows XP and Windows 2003 Servers.

Cheers,
Lara

"Tim Lewis" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there an easy way to setup my windows 2003 server to utilize both NIC
> cards in the server on one network? Right now with both of them configured
> if I look at the network utilization one is between 15% and 25% all day and
> the other sits around 1%. How can I get both of the cards to be used at
> once?
>
> Thanks.
>