Dual NIC Fault Tolerance

I have a Windows 2000 advanced server box with dual NICs. I want to configure them to be primary and secondary for fault tolerance.

I assign both an IP in the same subnet, and assign the first to Metric 1 and the second to Metric 2.
I add other IPs to metric 1.
I then uplug metric 1.
I go to another computer and one of the IPs assigned exclusively to metric 1, but metric 2 does not seem to take over.

I have read that the above procedure is all that has to be done to get this to work.

Can anyone suggest to me what I may be doing wrong?

Thanks

 

 

 

 

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