[cod] [CoD4] Multiple NIC's

[Raimo Radczewski]

Thx for the fast answer Eureka, my server is quite... I'd say powerful
(not for a high class server, but for mid) but on the last LAN's i
experienced a massive ping rise if someone downloads from my server (i
dont want to spend money for two servers, so this one serves files and
deds aswell)

I had like three different ideas on how to use the 2 NIC's best:
1 for Samba/NetBIOS etc, (that's quite easy to configure) and the
other one for Gaming... That would keep the load away from the Gaming
NIC..
How can i tell the gameservers to use the 2nd nic? Something with
bind? I really have no idea.

Second idea was to use bonding, i threw that one away because it just
doesnt work properly on cheap hardware.
Third idea was as written above to use one for room 1, other one for
room 2, but i think i can forget that one aswell.

@Clan DIN0 <p0rn0saurus at gmail.com>:
I wouldnt post it here if i'd use a windows server, would I? ;)

Regards, Reemo

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Eureka <eureka at fusionnetwork.us> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Sorry for the multi-post.
> I forgot to mention that the Servers are all plugged into the Backbone
> directly!
>
> Eureka wrote:
>>
>> 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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