What exactly is load balencing?

[skull]

This may be a stupid question but I thought it was having 2 nics in your computer split the traffic up. So if you have a bunch of traffic from a network you could put 2 nics on the server and load balence them. Then the computers on the network have double the bandwith from the switch to the server.

If this is the way it works do the nics have the same ip or 2 diferent ones?

 

[bex0rs]

That is the general idea. Basically, you will first need multiple nics and a driver that will support them. (I know that the Intel server nics will do this.) Then you will also need a managed switch that can treat the multiple ports used as one so that you can aggregate the bandwidth. If you do this, the two NIC's will appear to have a single IP.

~bex0rs

 

[Russ]

Load balancing is when I have a cup of coffee in each hand.

Russ, NCNE