Network Traffic Is Not Balanced Across Nics; Losing Inetcfg Configuration Information Upon Rebooting; Loss Of Secondary Ip Address Upon Deleting Any Binding - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Network Traffic Is Not Balanced across NICs

Losing INETCFG Configuration Information upon Rebooting

Loss of Secondary IP Address upon Deleting Any Binding

If the application is binding to the local host (0.0.0.0), the data is always
sent through the Primary. So the Primary should be inside the LBFT
group for the load to be evenly balanced.
Check whether the interface designated as Primary is within the group or
not. If not, either group the Primary interface or make one of the group
members Primary.
If the application is not bound to the local host, then the data is always
sent through the host where the application is bound. To load balance in
this case, make sure that this host is inside the LBFT Group.
To check whether a particular binding is part of the LBFT Group, do the
following:
1
Load INETCFG and select Bindings > TCP/IP.
2
In the screen that appears, select the Configure TCP/IP Bind option.
3
Make sure that the group interface for LBFT is set to Yes.
This could happen if the server abended while being configured. This corrupts
the file SYS:\ETC\TCPIP.CFG. Delete this file and copy a backup of the
previous configuration.
This could happen if more than one interface are using the same driver. If this
is the case, never delete any of the bindings. Always disable them if you don't
want to use them.
Troubleshooting 101