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Microsoft 2008 R2 NLB Multicast - Accessing over subnets ?

Hi Microsoft NLB Gurus,

We have Microsoft 2008 R2 NLB multicast cluster running on VMware. And each host has single interface and we have a problem accessing the virtual IP over the subnet.
 
1. Adding static ARP entries would not be possible.
2. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/960916 is just for Windows 2008 not for WIndows 2008 R2
3. We do not want to go with Unicast at this stage

Forwarding enable will fix this issue ?

netsh interface ipv4 set interface "NLB NIC" forwarding=enabled 

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But most of readings on the Internet recommends above command for the environment which has two interfaces and when NLB interface dose not have a gateway IP.

So, what would be the fix for this ?
Windows Server 2008VMwareNetwork Architecture

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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

8/22/2022 - Mon
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