[THIN] Re: NLB with multicast configuration

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@xxxxxx>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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