Thanks to both you and artdekneef, you've given me some insight as to how I'll be setting up the fileserver :) As for current issue - after doing some diag's on the machine, I soon realised that ~10% packet loss on a LAN is probably not a good thing. One cat5 cable later, performance has increased over 1000% :) Why is it *always* the simple things?? :) -- Anthony Michaud Network Administrator eLogix Corporation Pty Ltd Blessed are those who have no expectations, for they will never be disappointed. --Buddha > -----Original Message----- > From: Luke Smith [mailto:lsmith@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, 27 July 2001 11:25 > To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] > Subject: [isalist] RE: Slightly Off Topic - Multiple NIC's in > a machine. > > > http://www.ISAserver.org > > > You need to use NICs that can do trunking (or teaming as > intel calls it).. > and you need a switch that supports trunking (most do). > > I do teaming with Intel Pro/100s .. works a treat... need to > use the intel > driver, not the windows shipping one, but theres plenty of > help on the intel > site to set it up. > > Luke > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Anthony Michaud [mailto:anthonym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, 27 July 2001 11:20 AM > To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] > Subject: [isalist] Slightly Off Topic - Multiple NIC's in a machine. > > http://www.ISAserver.org > > > Hi all, > > Sorry for the OT post, but I was wondering if anyone has had any > experience with multiple NIC's in the one machine. I've > looked at QoS, > but that appears to be a method for reducing bandwidth, to support > multiple streams. I want to 'enlarge the pipe' going to my backup > server. > > I am aware that the machine is currently underspec'ed, but > now that I've > started down this road, I'd really like to be able to solve > the problem > :) > > Is it possible with W2k, to actually have 2(+) NIC's working > together to > double/triple etc bandwidth (Like multilink PPP, where you use two or > more modems to double your PPP connection). > > Any info/links etc would be greatly appreciated. > > -- > Anthony Michaud > Network Administrator > eLogix Corporation Pty Ltd > > Blessed are those who have no expectations, for they will never be > disappointed. --Buddha > > ------------------------------------------------------ > You are currently subscribed to this ISAserver.org Discussion List as: > lsmith@xxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > $subst('Email.Unsub') > > ------------------------------------------------------ > You are currently subscribed to this ISAserver.org Discussion > List as: anthonym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > $subst('Email.Unsub') >