Using Microsoft Network Load Balancing for Livecycle ES 2/2.5 with JBoss clustering?

Hi,
Has anyone tried using Microsoft NLB for Livecycle with JBoss clustering and get it working? Able to login to livecycle's admin ui page with the NLB IP
My enviroment:
- 2 jboss application server (different IP address)
- Horizontal clustered
- LC ES2 installed on both servers
For those who setup successfully, hope you can share your experience.
Thank you.

Thanks!
Just a few more questions...hehehe
In the document: Configuring LiveCycle ES2 Application Server Clusters Using JBoss.
Page 35 item 3.4. Have you had to configure the Caching Locators? If yes, where did you put them, in only one machine or in all of the nodes?
On page 29, iten 2.7 (Testing the JBoss Application Server cluster) says that for testing we can run the command specifying the server, in my case is:
run.bat -c lc_sqlserver_cl -b <ipAddress>
But in the Appendix C: Configuring JBoss as a Windows Service, it says: call run.bat -c all -b <ipAddress>
So when should I start JBoss with "lc_sqlserver_cl" or "all" ?

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Eve Wang
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