[isalist] Re: ISA Intra Array Authentification

  • From: "Gerald G. Young" <g.young@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:04:38 -0500

Well, technically, not exactly, although it is a best practice.

 

There are two ways to work around this.  These are:

 

1.       Run NLB in Multicast mode – not something I consider a good idea 
because you will most likely end up having to hard code a bunch of network 
devices’ ARP tables.

2.       Use the UnicastInterHostCommSupport Registry key (assuming Windows 
2003 SP1).

 

The link for 2., above is http://support.microsoft.com/kb/898867.

 

Cordially yours,

Jerry G. Young II

Application Engineer, Platform Engineering and Architecture

NTT America, an NTT Communications Company

 

22451 Shaw Rd.

Sterling, VA 20166

 

Office: 571-434-1319

Fax: 703-333-6749

Email: g.young@xxxxxxxx

 

From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Steve Moffat
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 6:50 AM
To: ISA Mailing List
Subject: [isalist] Re: ISA Intra Array Authentification

 

Intra-Array Communication

When you use ISA Server integrated NLB, each computer running ISA Server 
services requires an additional network adapter, for intra-array communication. 
We recommend that these network adapters be physically connected to each other 
(for example, through a single switch), and not to other network segments, to 
ensure that they receive only intra-array communication. You should then 
configure intra-array communication to use the IP address of the new adapter on 
each server. The configuration procedures are described in the topic 
Configuring and Securing Intra-Array Communication in this document.

 

Therefore it needs at least 2 nics

 

S

 

From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Bogdan Florin
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 3:00 AM
To: ISA Mailing List
Subject: [isalist] Re: ISA Intra Array Authentification

 

I did this and I found interesting documentation.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/isa/2004/plan/network_load_balancing_ee.mspx

 

please be kind and confirm if my understanding was right:

 

-       to have ISA with one Ethernet card only working in ARRAY there is also 
required to configure Network Load Balancing.

 

Or … TWO Ethernet will be a MUST ?

 

Thank you.

 

 

PS: on Isa 2000 it was simple creating the array, joust add second server, same 
settings and work but in 2004 it seems they change something more.

 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Bogdan Florin
CEO
InterNetCon - Satellite Internet Services
www.internetcon.ro www.powersat.ro
Phone: +40-264-452383
Cell: +40-740-074031
Cell: +40-788-074031
Fax: +40-264-452207

 

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From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Jim Harrison
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 10:21 PM
To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [isalist] Re: ISA Intra Array Authentification

 

Search the help for “intra-array account”.

Make sure that it’s set the same for al servers in the array.

 

From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Bogdan Florin
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 11:30 PM
To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [isalist] ISA Intra Array Authentification

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

I come to you with a simple question and I trough that you can help me faster 
than any other documentation.

 

We have an ISA Server 2004 connected to our main domain, with only one 
interface and used purely for caching. The settings are all ok, everything 
works all right. In this enviroments we add another server with intentions to 
have 2 servers in array. We would like to make a fail over at DNS level with 
same record and two IP.

 

After this array created successfully, there is one error on each ISA machine:

Description: ISA Server cannot connect to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx proxy server because 
the server requires authentication, either when chaining or for intra-array 
communication. However authentication failed because the specified credentials 
were incorrect. Check authentication credentials and try again.

 

While XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is the address of OTHER server. In this spirit I reach 
the conclusion that there is a problem in INTRA ARRAY communication.

 

The second server it have CARP Load factor to 1 and the old server have CARP 
Load factor to 100. In this enviroments …. When an end user connects to the 
second server it got the following error:

 

?          Error Code: 502 Proxy Error. Logon failure: unknown user name or bad 
password. (1326) 

?          IP Address: server isa old

?          Date: 2/6/2007 7:18:37 AM 

?          Server: server isa new

?          Source: proxy 

 

I can only conclude that Intra-Array authentification is the problem.

 

If you can provide me a fast advice I would appreciate very much.

 

 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Bogdan Florin
CEO
InterNetCon - Satellite Internet Services
www.internetcon.ro <http://www.internetcon.ro>  www.powersat.ro 
<http://www.powersat.ro> 
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