[ale] OT: WIN2k Networking

[Denny Chambers]

The only reason I see that you would set two "Defaults Routes" to the 
same metric would be if you wanted to load balance the traffic through 
two routers (assuming MS is doing some kind of Round Robin/ equiv. 
scheduling here).

Jerry Z. Yu wrote:

>	would it better to assign different metric value to each default 
>routes ( shuffle the orders later on as necessary), so you sort of 
>have a fail-over / load-balancing.
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> On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Denny Chambers wrote:
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>#Thanks Robert, that is the kind of info I am looking for.
>#
>#Robert Heaven wrote:
>#
>#>Even though it will "allow" you to define multiple default gateways, you
>#>shouldn't... the routing software will randomly try both paths causing
>#>slow response. Pick one NIC as your default gateway and let the other do
>#>static routing.
>#>
>#>
>#>On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 14:56, Denny Chambers wrote:
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>#>>Hi all,
>#>>
>#>>    I have been looking at Windows 2k TCP/IP networking (Professional 
>#>>Workstation in vmware), and I have notice that when you have multiple 
>#>>NIC cards, that it lets you setup all of the TCP/IP information 
>#>>seperately for each NIC. This mean I can setup an IPaddress, subnetmask 
>#>>on each card (this is normal). I can also setup not just one Default 
>#>>Gateway per card, but multiple Default Gateways per card (So which one 
>#>>is the Default?). Also each card can have it's own set of DNS servers, 
>#>>and it's own set of WINS servers. I am curious as to how the services 
>#>>(DNS, WINS, Routing) handle all of this. Normally you would only have 
>#>>one DefaultGateway for a system, with additional routes to other 
>#>>subnets. You also would have one set of DNS servers (primary, secondary, 
>#>>and tertiary), a DNS domain, and a set of search Domains.
>#>>
>#>>Can any Microsoft knowledgable folks shed some light on this.
>#>>
>#>>Thanks,
>#>>Denny
>#>>
>#>>
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