[c-nsp] Problem with Microsoft NLB on Server 2008 running in Multicast mode

[Asbjorn Hojmark - Lists]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:52:07 +0100, you wrote:

> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_configuration_example09186a0080a07203.shtml

Yeah, that's the one I was thinking off.

> Together with the static ARP it tends to make the whole system (cluster
> + network) more fragile IMO. Too much manual configuration, too many
> normally independent parts of the solution that have to match.

I agree, it isn't pretty.

One could use the 'unicast' model instead, but that lives on unicast
flooding, so it requires very small and very controlled VLANs, and it
breaks with vSwitches in there.

Or one could use a hardware loadbalancer...

-A