teaming intel nics

[projector1]

I am trying to team a couple of intel nics
just need to know if i need to assign a seperate ip address to both nics and then assign one to the virtual nic that is created when you enable teaming.
thanks

[teejay]

No need to assign ip's individually to the nic's, just need to assign one to the team.

[projector1]

thanks mate, i did a few internet searches but was unable to get a guide on setting this up.

[Disease]

You can download a broadcom utility which is wizard based, broadcom net xtreme I think it was called, obviously only works on broadcom adapters.

[teejay]

Intel do their own management software for this & I think the Broadcom utility requires at least one card to be Broadcom.

[maniac]

I never had any luck teaming intel NICs, it never worked properly. I think it was down to the switch being set wrong, but no matter what I did it never worked.

Might have another bash at it sometime, see if I can suss it out this time round. Intel have their own utility to do it, should come with the network drivers for that NIC if it supports teaming.

Mike.