http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Servers-Bridged-NICs-load-balance-23288203 en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:35:37 EDT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:35:37 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Servers-Bridged-NICs-load-balance-23294609 1x 10/100
2x 10/100/1000

Using the Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (since one of the 1000 cards is a Broadcom), I was able to very easily team the two 1000 NICs together and set the 100 NIC as a failover if both 1000 NICs crashed.

The BACS suite easily managed both the Intel NICs in the server without issue and everything took less than 2 minutes to configure.

Main page: »www.broadcom.com/support/etherne···rver.php
32bit Software Download: »www.broadcom.com/support/etherne···NX2-Mgmt
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I bridged the two cards just for the hell of it. The network bridge reports a connection speed of 217.0 Gbps and reports a DHCP assigned IP address from the DHCP server whereas each individual NIC does not have the IP information listed (support tab is grayed out).

Does this mean that with both NIC plugged into the same switch it is passing traffic over both cards?

How should I be reading this bridge status?
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