> Many thanks, thats sound advice, I know this isn't strictly the forum for
> this query
>
> Out of curriosity, have you come accross any DFS scenarios using Switch
> Load
> Balancing (SLB) or would the same advice apply? (it's only something we're
> looking at for the moment)
>
>
> "Ned Pyle [MSFT]" wrote:
>
>> The give the Microsoft PSS experience, our recommendation is always:
>> don't
>> team. We spend tens of thousands of hours a year troubleshooting issues
>> that
>> came down to badly written 3rd party teaming drivers. We pull the teams
>> and
>> everything works. Had two different calls on it today, as a matter of
>> fact.
>>
>> If you still insist, we recommend fault tolerance without load-balancing
>> (so
>> simply recovery from total NIC failure), as the odds of you actually
>> saturating a single gigabit on one server is pretty much nil. In fact,
>> saturating 100Mbit on one node is highly unlikely. And since they are
>> dual
>> NIC's on the same card, most failures that scrap one of the two
>> interfaces
>> will likely take out the other since it the whole board usually fails, so
>> even the tolerance is often not helpful.
>>
>> If you want to go with the scenario below, always run the absolute latest
>> NIC drivers and keep them up to date at all times - check with the vendor
>> monthly.
>> --
>>
>> Ned Pyle
>> Microsoft Enterprise Platform Support
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>>
>>
>> "Rob" <Rob[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:7A257800-C34E-4C0D-8764-3A5CA63BFC1B[ at ]microsoft.com...
>> > Hi I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for the best
>> > configuration for Network Card Teaming when using DFS-R?
>> >
>> > We are running a couple of HP servers with 100/1000 dual NICs. They are
>> > currently set to: Transmit Load balancing with fault tolerance (TLB)
>> >
>> >
>>
>>