Thanks Thomas for your reply,
Here is the required information.
---------
| sever 2 |
-------------------------- ---------
| | /
| | ---------/
|Clients |------------| server1 |
| | ---------\ ----------
| | \| Server 3 |
| | ----------
--------------------------
> -Networking devices, switches, gateways.
Network Device: There are non-configurable swithces to interconnect
differnet systems but no routers or firewalls.
> -IP addressing, range, schema, and masks used? Subnets?
Ip addressing Scheme: Only one network using private ip adressing
scheme 192.168.0.1/24 to 192.168.0.255/24
> -Requesting clients OS type, protocals used, applications.
Requesting Client OS type:
Miscrosoft based ( 9x/Millinium/2000 pro/ XP pro).
> -Are you load balancing SMB traffic for MS Client, or load balancing
I want to divide traffic generated by clients for using internet from
server 1 to two different servers (server2 and server3) which are
connected to 2 different internet service provider.
> HTTP traffic or FTP or NFS?
HTTp and FTP but mostly HTTP (NO NFS)
Protocols: All TCP/IP based protocols that should be available to
client when accessing internet form a server.
Application: HTTP, SMTP, FTP
> -Are you using NTFS 1.3 on the source volumes for each server?
Server partition type NTFS 1.3
> -Do you have another proxy installed on this network?
NO only single proxy
> --- In [email protected], Irfan Azher
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have some queries related to Microsoft ISA server
> > 2000.
> >
> > First of all I want to provide some info about my
> > network. In my network most of the systems are using
> > different flavor of MS windows and one computer (call
> > it server1) is providing internet access to all the
> > other computers (clients). There is no domain and all
> > the systems are in same workgroup. On server windows
> > 2000 advance server is installed with ISA 2000 in
> > integrated mode.
> >
> > Now I want to divide the load of the server1 on two
> > different servers server2 and server3. I have
> > different ideas which I will test and the best one
> > will certainly be used in the future.
> >
> > Now I need your help in practically implementing my
> > ideas.
> >
> > The Quires are as follows
> >
> > 1) First and most easy one (In my view) is that I want
> > to route the traffic of clients connecting to ISA
> > server on two different internet connection on the
> > basis of their private source IP i-e if I am using the
> > IP addressing scheme of 192.168.1.0 then first 128 pcs
> > would be route by server1 (On which ISA is installed)
> > towards server2 and rest of the ip would be routed
> > towards server3.
> >
> > 2) Second one is one advancement in the first idea
> > that if one server is idle at any time other may share
> > his load with the idle server.
> >
> >
> > 3) I have noticed that even if one person is
> > downloading some files then the browsing of all the
> > other user is affected badly. I want to route the
> > files with extensions like EXE, ZIP, RAR , Audio
> > files, Video files and other related files which users
> > usually download towards server2 and rest of the
> > browsing is routed to server3 i-e download of one user
> > will not effect the speed of browsing but will only
> > effect the downloading speed of other user.
> >
> > Last humble request is to be a little bit descriptive
> > in reply as I am totally newbie to Microsoft ISA
> > server 2000. I haven't done any configuration in ISA
> > server 2000 before but have done similar type of work
> > using Cisco routers.
> >
> >
> > Thanks in Advance
> >
> > Irfan Azher
> > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Web: http://www.ssuet.edu.pk/~iazher
> >
> >
> >
> >
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