Steven King wrote:
Very true Eric. Microsoft even acknowledges the issue, and still has not fixed it. I have had a few customers use NLB and have this issue.
Eric Gauthier wrote:
Brian,
The first is preventing it in the first place.
As annoying as this might sound, this is one of the standard operating modes for load balancing within a Microsoft server cluster (see NLB). We've tried to avoid it, but it seems to come up around once a year from someone on our campus...
Eric :)
I understand is 'working as designed' ? Much like the Stonegate (?) Firewall redundancy trick ? It was a little worse when doing the multicast-l2 to a unicast-l3 address trick.. By the way, if you think this is funny in a campus ethernet backbone.. Try it in an old ATM/LANE environment..I had customer that had the chance to try it, and wanted a root cause analysis. The BUS switch, was NOT happy in forwarding all the traffic going to the firewall cluster :-)...