I want to be able to search the internet with 2 different
NIC cards at the same time on two screens. I have
broadband
and router. What else do I need to make this work.
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Mike Mueller wrote:
No purpose to this. Just open another browser window as
suggested.
Why?
Ethernet technology only allows one NIC to 'talk' at a time
on a network. So unless your 2 nics are on 2 completely
seperated networks (internal and external), you will not
see
any increase in speed.
More Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=175767
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Steve N wrote
Not entirely true.
How do you think fault tolerance and load balancing are
accomplished on
the same network for a device such as a server with dual
NICs? By
connecting the NICs via switches (same switch for load
balancing,
seperate swites for fault tolerance). A router would also
work for a
load balancing configuration.
That is only true in the case of connecting them through a
hub (as the
article indicates), which has no trafic management
capabilities and
relies solely on CSMA/CD.
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Well, I may have misunderstood the article, but I read it as
not necessarily being a hub:
----"Two network adapters connected to the same physical
network (or hub)"
And the fault tolerance was farther down--
'These adapters enable two adapters to be placed in the same
server, but only enable use of one adapter at a time. If the
primary adapter fails, the driver deactivates the first card
and activates the second with the same address
configuration."
