How to make 2 machines with 2 NICs use the switch instead of the company network?

[billstuck]

If I have 2 nics in each machine and one goes out to the corporate network and the others are connected to a 100Mb switch. How can I make it communcation with the other machines on the switch instead of over the corp. network since there is 2 paths. make sense? The reason I want to do this is because the corporate network connection is 10Mb and the switch is 100Mb.

Thanks

[XWRed1]

If the corp network and the switched network are on different subnets, then traffic bound for the switched network will go over the interface connected to that network and traffic bound for the corp network will go over the interface connected to that network.

[billstuck]

Thanks

One other question. If I have 10 machines hooked to 1 switch. Say 5 of them have dual nics hooked to the switch and corp network, and the other 5 are private only hooked to the switch.

Can the 5 private machines somehow get a work or virus through the switch from the machines that have dual nics? or does the switch protect the private machines from that?

Make sense?

[coin]

If there is a logical or physical connection between the pcs then yes a virus can pass along.

[Nickme90]

Got to one of the machines, If you can ping a machine on the company network, theres a very high chance a virus can get through.

[XWRed1]

Originally posted by billstuck
Thanks

One other question. If I have 10 machines hooked to 1 switch. Say 5 of them have dual nics hooked to the switch and corp network, and the other 5 are private only hooked to the switch.

Can the 5 private machines somehow get a work or virus through the switch from the machines that have dual nics? or does the switch protect the private machines from that?

Make sense?

By virus you mean worm, right? A worm couldn't directly get through, i.e. an infected machine one the other network talks directly to a non-dual-nic machine on your switch and infects it.

But the machines with dual nics could get infected, then they could infect your non-dual-nic machines.

[mbentley]

i don't know if you got this all sorted out or not, but if you set the ip address of the gateway to the switch side, it will go thru the switch.