Hi ,


I would like to know ,Is it possible to do teaming in win Xp or Vista
system.If one network card fails automatically second nic card shld work.

Regards

Alex

Alexyy wrote:
> I would like to know ,Is it possible to do teaming in win Xp or Vista
> system.If one network card fails automatically second nic card shld work.

Hi Alexyy

No version of Windows supports NIC teaming - that is, in terms of there
being any built-in Operating System support for teaming. The network
cards which can be teamed in Windows machines, implement the teaming and
fail-over logic entirely in the vendor-supplied driver for the NIC.

Most of the teaming NICs I've seen are intended for servers; eg Windows
Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. However the same drivers might also
work on XP and Vista, respectively. Whether that is "supported" would be
up to the supplier of the specific NICs you are using.

Generally the NICs need to be specifically designed for teaming - you
can't take 2 common-or-garden NICs, and team them. Neither the driver,
or the OS, will support it.

Hope this helps,

Andrew
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