Question : How do I "Load Balance" with two NICs?

I have two new DELL servers and each one has two NICs in each server.  When i look at the properties on any of the NICs, I see several properties listed such as,

Client for Microsoft Networks
File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks
Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

These are all enabled. There is also an item that is called,

Network Load Balancing

This item is not enabled. The description for it says, "This component provides TCP/IP load balancing functionality"

The way I read this is that if this item is enabled on both NICs in a server and the NICs are given the same IP address, then they will act as one virtual NIC and will share the load on that server. That's just how I interpret all that stuff. However, I just did a search on EE and read around 12 questions regarding two NICs in a PC and Load balancing and I do understand the concept of Load balancing in regards to clusters of servers, etc but the impression I got from reading the Q & As was that that's not what "load balancing" is.  Is it? Is there this other type of load balancing and does it help on, for instance, a web server with medium demand? Is that then dependent on having the connections from those two NICs going to different switches to realize any type of gain on throughput? I am totally confused on this one. Also is it possible to do a reservation in DHCP for that address when you have two different hardware MACs?

Answer : How do I "Load Balance" with two NICs?

no...the switch you are plugged in doesn't support them anyway.

If for some reason it requires it, or you can't function at all, set it to something like 1 (default VLAN) or default depending on the choices.