Networking info

[j1999dl]

I was wondering could you or if you can hook up two network cables to your computer and run the internet connection thru both of them at the same time. Also could you run your networking info from your server thru one and the just the internet thru the other line. That way you have just one line dedicated for the server feed and one for the internet feed.

[cradivonyk]

Yes, you can do both.

[j1999dl]

How would you set it up cause right now, I have one cat5 cable as the network and internet feed.

[cradivonyk]

How would you set it up cause right now, I have one cat5 cable as the network and internet feed.

Well, which method did you want to do? NIC1 = Internet and NIC2 = LAN?

Just make sure the NICs are on 2 different logical networks. For example, if you have broadband and the cable modem/router issues you a 192.168.1.XXX IP address, just make sure that the network your server is on is something different. Whether it be 192.168.2.X 172.X.X.X or 10.X.X.X. What is the purpose of what you are doing?

[j1999dl]

Well what I am wanting to do is set it up to where basically I have one cable for part network and part internet and the other dedicated to full internet connection. But Im not sure if I can do that. Let me tell you how I have it setup. This is at my office. I have internet coming into the modem then in a router and then runs into a switch that then designates the internet and the server feeds out to all the computers on the network. The network is basically seen as another drive. We network in an see that drive on the server and pull all data from that one point. Now keep in mind this is only a 5-6 computer network. I am wanting to do this cause I am basically not sure if the network feed from the server is blocking some of the internet bandwidth or not. If any of that makes any sense lol. If there is anythin else you need to know just ask.

[copedog]

Doing this will buy you nothing. And in order for you to do it, you will have to change IP addresses somewhere whether it be on the other PCs on the network or on your router. You will also have to setup actual routing on your router - as in adding static routes to the inside interface of the router for the new subnet that you setup.

Stick with what you have setup already.

[j1999dl]

Well it never hurts to ask. Thanks for the info.