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Since Microsoft does not provide support for it, it's the manufacturer's job to provide driver support for network card teaming: <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/254101" rel="ugc nofollow">https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/254101</a><br />
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See the manual of your current NICs if they support teaming and what do you need to activate it.<br />
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HTH,<br />
Dan
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Since Microsoft does not provide support for it, it's the manufacturer's job to provide driver support for network card teaming: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/254101 [https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/254101]

See the manual of your current NICs if they support teaming and what do you need to activate it.


HTH,
Dan

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Wanting to use an additional 1GB nic to provide a 2GB total connection rate to the poweredge server running server 2008. How does the nic have to be configured to make that work
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Wanting to use an additional 1GB nic to provide a 2GB total connection rate to the poweredge server running server 2008. How does the nic have to be configured to make that work

using 2 nic's on back of dell poweredge server to act together as 1 (2GB) connection

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