WLBS and W2K3

-using 2 NICs on 2 servers.
-each server has a nic w/fixed IP for communication on the LAN: XXX.XXX.XXX.195 and XXX.XXX.XXX.197.
-each server has a nic w/fixed IP for NLB config: xxx.xxx.xxx.196 and xxx.xxx.xxx.198 note: niether of these has a gateway configured per:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/193602
-configured with Network Load Balancing Manager
"cluster IP":xxx.xxx.xxx.190 shows along with fixed IP for each NLB adapter under "ipconfig"
-http://support.microsoft.com/kb/193602 also says the 2 nics have to be on different subnets . . . Mine are all on the same subnet . . . will there be any problems???

Thanks

If you use both NICs on the same subnet, then these will be in a same network, So if there is only one network, whats the use of NLB? :blink: The network will be confused that the same machine has two interfaces which one to use, you can configure that ofcourse but, why to put a redundant link when its not required??

the idea was to have 1 nic from each server for the NLB and 1 each for direct communication . . . from what you are saying, I can assume that only 1 nic is needed and I can RDP to it's IP?
Unicast or Multicast config for the NLB?