[115406] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Unicast Flooding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven King)
Thu Jun 18 17:31:22 2009
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:30:19 -0400
From: Steven King <sking@kingrst.com>
To: Eric Gauthier <eric@roxanne.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090618185335.GA8126@roxanne.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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 :)
>
>
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Steve King
Network Engineer - Liquid Web, Inc.
Cisco Certified Network Associate
CompTIA Linux+ Certified Professional
CompTIA A+ Certified Professional
