I like Phil's idea of getting an inexpensive switch and simplifying your network. Put the switch at the MacPro and plug the cable from the router into the switch. Connect one of the NIC's to the switch and connect the SB3 to the switch. Unless you want to do some sophisticated routing or bridging with the MacPro I would just leave the second NIC unused. Let the router do NAT and be the DHCP server. The MacPro and SB3 will be the DHCP clients. Of course if you don't want to use DHCP then you can still hook things up this way and configure the network manually.
That being said, I have not owned a Mac with two NIC's. However, I would assume that you could go to "System Preferences" > "Sharing" and select "Internet Sharing". This should give you the option to "Share your connection from" Ethernet 0 "To computers using" Ethernet 1, or something like that. Then maybe it would work OK the way you currently have it wired. Might be worth a try if you don't want to buy the switch. -- Scott -- On Mar 25, 2008, at 9:08 AM, dweeks wrote: > > "can you bridge the NICS on the Mac?" > > That's the question,and I don't know how to do that. I'm still > searching Google... > > > -- > dweeks > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > dweeks's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1387 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44165 > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
