4 months ago we implemented 4 new servers with 2 Intel single port gig cards
and set them up as load-balanced. They worked fine in preliminary testing
but once they went live and got a real load we started having the same
problem with printers and every so often the file access would hang for a
while. After scratching my head for about a hour I decided to set the NICs
to fail-over instead of load-balance and everything has been great since.
Our driver, E1000NT4.SYS is version 2.70.270.0, which was the latest version
4 months ago. We decided to leave them in fail-over since NT will not
handle 2 gig's.
js
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Wehnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 11:04 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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