Re: [ot] one for the networking guru's

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

You have two basic options with Windows...

Dual-attached (each machine has 2 connections to the SAME subnet)
Multi-homed (each machine has a single connection to 2 or more subnets)

how you go about configuring each, which is better for you particular
requirements, and so on, is subject best left to when I've not had several
large bottles of Leffe Blonde...

(Hey, - it's my birthday, - I'm allowed to, - even SWMBO says so!)

Paul G.



>From: "Jeremy M. Harmer" <jeremy@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [ot] one for the networking guru's
>Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:22:06 +0100
>
>I guess if you add second cards and config them with a different subnet
to
>the other cards then routing will sort itself out. Dunno about Windows
>though - works in Unix.
>
>Jeremy.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxx>
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 4:16 PM
>Subject: [ukha_d] [ot] one for the networking guru's
>
>
> > Got a few PC’s connected via 100Mbps LAN – want to connect two of
my
>edit
>PC’s together via Gigabit networking to share very large video and
audio
>files for edit. Can I add a second Ethernet card (gigabit) to each so
that
>peer to peer traffic between them uses the faster link (they both have
very
>fast disk IO – SCSI and SATA) and not the existing n/w infrastructure?
> >
> > I guess this is a routing issue but how do you tell XP and W2K to
do
>this?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Paul.
>
>
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