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| Tech Ranger 2002-09-15, 4:53 pm |
| I have read in 2 text books that different site links can be set up for different WAN links and relative costs can be configured to establish a preference for replication over less costly links. In theory this sounds great. What I am having difficulty with is the actual way that this is implemented. Neither book goes into that. Win2K doesn't ask you which link uses dial up and which uses a leased line. The OS does not know which link is which. Self-study can be difficult at times because there is no teacher to ask questions. Nonetheless, I am guessing that you accomplish this objective by fooling around with the subnets or the bridgehead servers, or I am just stupidly failing to see something obvious here. Can anybody clarify?
I hope I am asking my question clearly.
We have 2 sites which are connected physically by 2 WAN links with different costs. We configure 2 site links between the 2 sites. One is given a cost of 10 and the other 1. How does the OS know which site link object represents which physical WAN link? | |
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| Tech Ranger 2002-09-15, 5:13 pm |
| Thanks for the link. | |
| Tech Ranger 2002-09-16, 11:36 am |
| After reading this link, I am still as perplexed as ever. Can anybody explain this stuff to me? What is the missing link, no pun intended. How do you match up site link objects with their physical counterpart? | |
| CyberDude 2002-09-17, 2:25 am |
| I do not think that the physical comes into this situation. It is all done by cost. If the admin puts a cost of 1 on a 56K line and a cost of 10 on a T1 line, then it is the admins fault. Common sense dictates that the faster the connection, the lower the cost should be.
Would the OS not know what the physical was by the driver installed?  | |
| Tech Ranger 2002-09-17, 6:10 am |
| If you have 2 site links connecting 2 sites, one with a low cost and one with a high cost, how does Windows know which site link is associated with which WAN link? | |
| CyberDude 2002-09-17, 12:20 pm |
| I believe that the KCC deals only with cost. |
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