Not entirely sure what you're trying to achieve (a network diagram may
help) but...
1) I have a P3 Optiplex GX1 sitting next to me at the moment (running
NT 4) and it's nic comes up as a "3Com Fast EtherLink XL 10/100Mb TX
Ethernet NIC (3C905B-TX)"
Win 9x will use any and all cards in a system if it has drivers for
them (unless you disable the card in the device tree).
2) Win 98 (like all Windows' OS's) will use all network cards so I'm
not sure; a) how you'd only select to use one card for Windows or b)
why you'd want to.
3) Any nic settings in W98 persist.
I'm guessing here but are you trying to sniff the same network as is
connected to the mobo nic? If so, I seem to remember having a problem
whereby you can't have 2 nics in a Win x system and have them both on
the same subnet (not without having some magic voodoo channel bonding
s/w).
Mark.
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From: Stewart Dean [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 9:54 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problem with two NIC cards/W98 and sniffer software
Background:
I'm working with Agilent (nee HP) Advisor SW edition, their software
sniffer. I have it installed on PIII Dell Optiplex GX1 running W98.
The machine has 2 10/100 Ethernet NI, one on the motherboard, the other
plugged into the PCI bus riser card; both 'work', after a baffling
fashion. And the sniffer works, but....
Problem:
I want to be to have the motherboard NI dedicated to the W98
communication subsystem, and the NIC used by Agilent Advisor SW
sniffer. I *can* set the Advisor software to use either card, but how
do I:
1) determine which (or both!) card W98 commo is using?
2) bind the MB NI to W98 commo?
3) set something so that the binding persists through reboots?
I wouldn't have thought this would be that big a deal, or rocket
science...but everyone I 've asked either goes blank or says, 'W98 is a
Microsoft single user OS, dummy; it can't chew gum and think'
Anybody know how to achieve what I want....or do I have to install WNT
(another fine piece of advanced OS S/W)
Failing an answer is there somewhere else I should post this?
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