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Agreed. &nbsp;This is a hardware feature. &nbsp;Your average desktop PC will not be able to do this, but your average server PC WILL.
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Agreed.  This is a hardware feature.  Your average desktop PC will not be able to do this, but your average server PC WILL.

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We had to switches install for redundancy within our Datacenter...if one goes down, the other is there to keep the network up and running. I want the servers to be dual NIC (done physically), so that if a switch goes down the other NIC simply takes up the load with no intervention from the User or Administrator...How do I setup the NICs to go to separate switches?? Some says clustering(I thought this was strickly for server clustering)...someone else said IP forwarding??? I'm lost...but I need redundancy........
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We had to switches install for redundancy within our Datacenter...if one goes down, the other is there to keep the network up and running. I want the servers to be dual NIC (done physically), so that if a switch goes down the other NIC simply takes up the load with no intervention from the User or Administrator...How do I setup the NICs to go to separate switches?? Some says clustering(I thought this was strickly for server clustering)...someone else said IP forwarding??? I'm lost...but I need redundancy........

Dual NIC issue

The Windows operating systems have distinct methodologies for designing and implementing networks, and have specific systems to accomplish various networking processes, such as Exchange for email, Sharepoint for shared files and programs, and IIS for delivery of web pages. Microsoft also produces server technologies for networked database use, security and virtualization.