I have installed a quad ethernet NIC i my 720 and I wonder how it will present it self in the NT Domain. Does any one know how to be sure trafic goes to the correct interface ? How does WINS react on a NT/Netapp host with multiple NIC's ? My NT servers are on the same subnet as the "e1a" interface and NFS clients on the "e0".
I used to have multi-homed F630's running CIFS. The multi-homing was mostly a historical accident; the network environment was such that traffic's choice of interface didn't have performance implications.
Anyway, the big problem was that NT 4 revisions prior to Service Pack 4 have a NetBIOS bug that's exposed when you try to play with a multi-homed server. Every so often, NT clients would get a "The network path cannot be found" error when they tried to access a share from a NetApp. When you did a net view from a DOS prompt, you'd get
System error 53 has occurred.
At the time, there was an NT patch; the fix nowadays would be to upgrade to a non-ancient service pack.
Brian