Server Ethernet Ports

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I use the 2nd nic to connect directly to my Terminal Server with a Cross Over
cable. This provides GB speed and bypasses the switch traffic. I then
changed the mfg file host name from my servers name to the 2nd IP address.
Took off 4 sec in my vantage startup.

Jeremy


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All network guru's,

My server has two gigabit either net ports. I run a class C network. I gave
each nic card an IP address and connected them both to gigabit ports on my
dell switch. They both show that the are operational on my LAN at 1 GBPS,
etc.... Am I dreaming, can the server be setup this way or are the two
gigabit either net connections only good for separate network segments or
something etc....
I'm only running 2 clients against the new 8.0 installation and it appears
only one nic is doing the work even though they both appear as operational.

Patrick Winter
sSc Specialty Screw Corporation
Live Network: Vantage 6.10.514, Progress 9.1D08, Windows 2003 Server,
Crystal 8.5.3.975
Test Network: Version: Vantage 8.00.711b, OpenEdge 10.0B01, Windows 2003
Server, Epicor Crystal 10.0.0.533



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At 03:40 PM 6/30/2005, you wrote:
>My server has two gigabit either net ports. I run a class C network. I
>gave each nic card an IP address and connected them both to gigabit ports
>on my dell switch. They both show that the are operational on my LAN at 1
>GBPS, ...
>..... it appears only one nic is doing the work even though they both
>appear as operational.

If they're both addressed to use the same subnet, then the default routing
tables will only direct IP traffic over one of them. You need a NIC driver
that balances the traffic at the driver level, invisible to the operating
system. Or some complex subnetting.

Honestly... it's doubtful your server has the IO bandwidth to max out a
single gigabit NIC.

-Wayne Cox
Twenty Three, Inc. -- Information Technology Consulting
828-685-2338
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We used to have an HP 4000M managed switch. One of the nice things you
could do with it was support two NICs (network interface cards) from the
same machine. As long as the network cards in the server supported it, the
switch was able to load balance and do automatic failover. Both cards
carried the same address. At the time I had two Intel 100 Mbps Ethernet
cards that supported this functionality (Intel ProSet software - comes
standard with their NICs). I don't recall the setup details. We switched
to a gigabit card about two years ago.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't a proprietary setup (and wasn't difficult), but
both the switch and server NICs must support it.

Chris



Christopher Gitzlaff, MSCIS
Manager - Information Systems & Technology
Major Industries, Inc.
Phone: 715.842.4616 ext. 323
Email: cgitzlaff@...



-----Original Message-----
From: pjw@... [mailto:pjw@...]
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 2:40 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Server Ethernet Ports


All network guru's,

My server has two gigabit either net ports. I run a class C network. I gave
each nic card an IP address and connected them both to gigabit ports on my
dell switch. They both show that the are operational on my LAN at 1 GBPS,
etc.... Am I dreaming, can the server be setup this way or are the two
gigabit either net connections only good for separate network segments or
something etc.... I'm only running 2 clients against the new 8.0
installation and it appears only one nic is doing the work even though they
both appear as operational.

Patrick Winter
sSc Specialty Screw Corporation
Live Network: Vantage 6.10.514, Progress 9.1D08, Windows 2003 Server,
Crystal 8.5.3.975
Test Network: Version: Vantage 8.00.711b, OpenEdge 10.0B01, Windows 2003
Server, Epicor Crystal 10.0.0.533



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]



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Wayne,

Thanks for the feedback, Plan B connect one leg directly to my PC. (:-)
I would agree one should be enough and not be the bottle neck. But hey
I thought it may be worth a try if its easy to setup. Many of the
Advanced settings in the driver such as "Master Slave Mode" are setup
As AutoDetect by default.


Patrick

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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Wayne Cox
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 2:56 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Server Ethernet Ports

At 03:40 PM 6/30/2005, you wrote:
>My server has two gigabit either net ports. I run a class C network. I
>gave each nic card an IP address and connected them both to gigabit
>ports on my dell switch. They both show that the are operational on my
>LAN at 1 GBPS, ...
>..... it appears only one nic is doing the work even though they both
>appear as operational.

If they're both addressed to use the same subnet, then the default routing
tables will only direct IP traffic over one of them. You need a NIC driver
that balances the traffic at the driver level, invisible to the operating
system. Or some complex subnetting.

Honestly... it's doubtful your server has the IO bandwidth to max out a
single gigabit NIC.

-Wayne Cox
Twenty Three, Inc. -- Information Technology Consulting
828-685-2338



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search the web to see if your NICs will support NIC Teaming. This will combine the NIC's into a single port/IP address. Then you have increase band width and fault tolerance setup.

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Of pjw@...
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 2:40 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Server Ethernet Ports


All network guru's,

My server has two gigabit either net ports. I run a class C network. I gave
each nic card an IP address and connected them both to gigabit ports on my
dell switch. They both show that the are operational on my LAN at 1 GBPS,
etc.... Am I dreaming, can the server be setup this way or are the two
gigabit either net connections only good for separate network segments or
something etc....
I'm only running 2 clients against the new 8.0 installation and it appears
only one nic is doing the work even though they both appear as operational.

Patrick Winter
sSc Specialty Screw Corporation
Live Network: Vantage 6.10.514, Progress 9.1D08, Windows 2003 Server,
Crystal 8.5.3.975
Test Network: Version: Vantage 8.00.711b, OpenEdge 10.0B01, Windows 2003
Server, Epicor Crystal 10.0.0.533



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]



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(2) To search through old msg's goto: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/messages
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