I have several questions, but they are all intertwined with each other.
What are the workable options for redundancy when one server goes offline when you have 2 servers with 2 nics each with the edge firewall configuration?
I see an option under internal network properties that says "If ISA Server is unavailable, use this backup route to connect to the Internet:"
Direct Access
Alternative ISA Server.
So, does this mean that you have some redundancy against loss of Internet access during server reboots even if you do not enable NLB?
Should you have each ISA point to the other as the backup route or should you have the first point to the second and the second server's backup route be "Direct Access"?
Do you combine these backup route settings with NLB at the same time?
If the internal nic is being used for intra-array communication, can you use also use this nic as the nic where the virtual IP for NLB is coming from?
For instance if the internal nic is 192.168.1.6 and the external nic 192.168.55.6 can you have the virtual IP set to 192.168.1.120 and also load balance the Internal network?
I read that you cannot load balance the intra-array network, but I don't want to load balance the intra-array network. I want to load balance the Internal network, but I don't have enough nics for everything to be on a different nic.
When you enable NLB do you use VIP (192.168.1.120) as the IP address used in configuring browser settings or gateway addresses instead of the internal IP address of the first ISA servers?
What are the workable options for redundancy when one server goes offline when you have 2 servers with 2 nics each with the edge firewall configuration?
I see an option under internal network properties that says "If ISA Server is unavailable, use this backup route to connect to the Internet:"
Direct Access
Alternative ISA Server.
So, does this mean that you have some redundancy against loss of Internet access during server reboots even if you do not enable NLB?
Should you have each ISA point to the other as the backup route or should you have the first point to the second and the second server's backup route be "Direct Access"?
Do you combine these backup route settings with NLB at the same time?
If the internal nic is being used for intra-array communication, can you use also use this nic as the nic where the virtual IP for NLB is coming from?
For instance if the internal nic is 192.168.1.6 and the external nic 192.168.55.6 can you have the virtual IP set to 192.168.1.120 and also load balance the Internal network?
I read that you cannot load balance the intra-array network, but I don't want to load balance the intra-array network. I want to load balance the Internal network, but I don't have enough nics for everything to be on a different nic.
When you enable NLB do you use VIP (192.168.1.120) as the IP address used in configuring browser settings or gateway addresses instead of the internal IP address of the first ISA servers?