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New Floating IP and failover on windows NT and AD question
I have a question. If I have a Microsoft machine with 2 network interfaces and I want a single virtual IP to serve the application. What Microsoft product or service allows the virtual IP to move between 2 NIC's of a machine when a network problem occurs on one interface? In solaris we use IPMP in Linux its bonding. I remember back in the 90's Microsoft had wolfpack technology but that was winnt 3.5.1 and we failed over machines, not individual interfaces on the same machine.

an AD forest can handle 1200 domains max, how would one manage 26k domains using AD?

Only Microsoft solutions will be considered

thanx,
Bill


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In any case, Windows(NT3.5-2K3) NIC failover is via a virtual NIC made from to 2 physical NICs.

Usually the methods I have seen are using both NICs (or more if you have them) in a Bonded Configuration, provided your switch can support it. That way you get more bandwidth availability (even if not the point) and failing of one NIC with the bonding will go into either degraded state or non-bonded state but still be connected. This depends on you NIC manufacturer.

Microsoft uses this kind of setup in the "cluster mode" much of the time, so it does work. I can't find any non-cluster specific setup.

It may appear that this is a built-in thing as well... you just have to configure the adapters with priority and seperate IPs and have them BOTH registered in DNS (Active Directory driven DNS that is)
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