[cod] [CoD4] Multiple NIC's

[Eureka]

Hey Raimo
 If your only having ~40 people and dont care about everyone having a 
ping of ~20-34 I wouldn't worry about using Dual Nic's.
 My Pc-Gamers club at our university hosts 2x 30 person COD4 servers off 
one box using 1 gbt nic and a similar network setup (extended star using 
a mix of gb-uplink/10/100 switches).
We have never had an issue with pings getting higher than ~34 but thats 
because of the system we are running on (very old p4). On a faster comp 
i would expect pings of 10-20 at most.

I personally run the servers/network at the Lan's we throw and we use 
CentOS 5.x (linux) as they seem to be a lot more stable for dedicated 
Lan servers... that and with the older hardware we are using we see a 
drop of ~7 in the pings on the server (compared to a dedicated windows 
server..xp..server 03...etc).

For our setups we do the following...

Router (pfSense)
GBT -> outside
GBT -> LAN
This box serves all of the DHCP and allows users to connect to the net.

Next in line we have our Backbone (1x 24 port gigabit switch).
That switch spiders out to each of our tables. Each table has 1/2 
switches depending on how big the tables are and what switch is at that 
location.

Ideally this is how i would suggest a setup.

                                                Router
                                                     |
                                                     |
                             Backbone Switch (Full Gigabit)
                            |                                          
      |
   Table1(gigabit uplink--back to backbone)       Table2 (gigabit 
uplink--back to backbone)
          |               |                  |                           
            |                  |                     |
          |               |                  |                           
            |                  |                     |
          |               |                  |                           
            |                  |                     |
       10/100      10/100       10/100                                
10/100       10/100           10/100
           PC1         PC2            PC3                                
PC4             PC5             PC6

Ive attached the ascii as an image...just incase it wont format properly.

Also, i will mention that using dual nic's on Windows...Not very happy 
to do usually.
I will also note that our Lan's typically have anywhere between 60-100 
people and we usually host ~10 different games over a shared network. We 
still are able to achieve very low pings for a environment this hacky ;)
If you want some assistance planning your Lan please hit me back and ill 
do what i can.

You can check out our club website here: www.uwyogamers.com (Check out 
the gallery)

Hope this helps.... some....

-E

Raimo Radczewski wrote:
> Hey Guys,
> I'm planning a small server for a local ~40 Persons LAN.
>
> Since we have a limited amount of hubs with 1gbit connections i
> planned to use multiple NIC's with different IP's, connected to each
> of two gbit hubs, which are uplinked to each one 100mbit hubs, which
> are connected using their second uplink.
>
> Some ASCII Art for better visualisation:
>
> Server NIC #1 ---Gbit--> Gbit Hub #1 ---Uplink--> 100Mbit Hub #1
> <--Uplink--> 100Mbit Hub #2 <--Uplink--- Gbit Hub #2 <--Gbit--- Server
> NIC #2
>
> Normal Users connect to one of the 100Mbit Hubs.
>
> My Idea was to tell Users on 100Mbit Hub #1 to use IP1, others on #2 to use IP2.
>
> My Problem has probably to do with Windows, i actually have no idea,
> but even if i connect to IP2, CoD4 actually connects to IP1
> Did someone of you try this?
>
> Regards,
> Raimo Radczewski
>
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