WHS to HD200 - Network saturation issues?

[mangriotis]

Originally Posted by S_M_E

WHS doesn't support multi-homing although that may not be the problem. Unsupported doesn't always mean it wont work but you might try putting the HDHR on the switch and disabling the slow NIC to see if it helps.

I guess I wanted to avoid all that traffic (~40Mbps stream while recording 2 HD shows) coming into the single NIC, with an output stream going to the HD200 (and maybe another to the client). Then I think Gb NIC would be absolutely necessary...

Is what I am doing considered multihoming? It doesn't seem so, as the 2nd NIC isn't bridged or connected to my LAN, but I could be misinterpreting what the definition of multihoming really is.

[mangriotis]

Originally Posted by gplasky

This was a known bug that if you had it enabled it would slow down network access.

Gerry

I just checked, and my HDHR is connected to the 3COM NIC. This is not the one with the issue, but may be more advanced than the nVidia NIC. When I get home tonight, I will try to switch them (and disable the checksum offloading).

[S_M_E]

Originally Posted by mangriotis

I guess I wanted to avoid all that traffic (~40Mbps stream while recording 2 HD shows) coming into the single NIC, with an output stream going to the HD200 (and maybe another to the client). Then I think Gb NIC would be absolutely necessary...

Is what I am doing considered multihoming? It doesn't seem so, as the 2nd NIC isn't bridged or connected to my LAN, but I could be misinterpreting what the definition of multihoming really is.

I understand why you did it I'm just trying to find out if that's the problem. It may or may not be the problem but it's worth trying.

Yes, dual NICs is multi-homing. Bonding or teaming is different but that wouldn't be supported by WHS either. Like I said, just because it's technically unsupported that might not be the problem but it is easy to test.