Get the latest drivers from Intel-I think anything prior to 3.8 something
had problems, but it could have been 4. The first time I set this up on our
network (NT 4 sp6a server at the time) it knocked off every older HP printer
we had in the school district (not just the LAN) that had an emulex network
card (instead of the hp jetdirect cards), but the newer HP printers were
fine. Took a couple of hours to find the culprit (funny, it works for a
while and then I turn this server back on...)-I could literally ping -t a
printer and watch it drop off the network as the server with the two nics
booted up-but newer drivers fixed it. We figured it was some sort of layer
2 broadcast since we still had that turned on for LAT at the time. I also
read from someone on Intel's forum that had the same problem with Xerox
printers-same solution.
-Bonnie M.
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Wehnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 9:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: NIC Load Balancing
Recently I installed a Intel Pro 100/S Dual Port NIC. Then proceeded to
configure a load balancing array consisting of the 2 ports on the Intel NIC.
Both ports where then connected to a 3Com 3300 switch.
Everything worked like expected expect, except for intermittent activity
with the printers.
Sometimes they would print other times end-user will get message like
"printer unavailable or not connected".
I tried pinging the printers IP, I would get 2/4 or 3/4 or 0/4 reply's back,
randomly.
Print Server - NT4 sp6a
Clients - NT4 sp6a
All printers are one of three types- HP 4000, 5M, 2500CM
Has one experienced this before or have any advice?
Matt Wehnes
System Administrator
Morton Machining & MFG
(309) 266-6551 x12
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