Dual Ethernet Purpose?

[shadow1988]

I know that it enables you to share your connection with another computer..or somthing like that. But I've also heard it can double your bandwidth. Is this true, and if so, is it easy to do?

 

[Tutelary]

You dont have an internet connection thats going to max out one port.

 

[shadow1988]

AKA. its not needed i presume.

 

[Fluke]

Only reason I could see in needing it were if you used it as a firewall box. One to the router and one to the internal network.

 

[Dan_D]

I know that it enables you to share your connection with another computer..or somthing like that. But I've also heard it can double your bandwidth. Is this true, and if so, is it easy to do?

You can do this on a local lan provided your network cards have software that allows them to do adapter teaming. This feature though won't net you much of anything in a home use type of situation.

 

[MrMaxwell]

You can do this on a local lan provided your network cards have software that allows them to do adapter teaming. This feature though won't net you much of anything in a home use type of situation.

And he's not going to be doing this unless he's using a *nix variant anyway.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

And he's not going to be doing this unless he's using a *nix variant anyway.

That's been around for Windows servers for a long time...not just *nix.

 

[Dan_D]

And he's not going to be doing this unless he's using a *nix variant anyway.

Sure he can. If the network card has Windows software available to do this. Intel's Proset software allows you to do it, as does software for many other NICS. I've done this with many servers that run Windows 2000 Server and Server 2003.

 

[-(Xyphox)-]

you can usually team the NIC's to share the load

 

[Calibur]

Network load balancing if your connections is maxing out one port you can balance that to two ports.