I used a PC with multiple NICs as a router as well... but back in the
nineties before inexpensive quality routers were readily available.
Are you doing this for a home network?
At 12:53 PM 5/4/2013, you wrote:
That depends upon whether you use your machine as a router or not ! I
have a system where I have three network cards and two internal
networks attached.
On Saturday 04 May 2013 20:42:02 Winterlight wrote:
> Every Motherboard I have purchased in the last ten years has twok Gb
> NICs. I understand that they can be used for two different Networks,
> but I have yet to find anyone who needs to do this let alone actually
> uses them. It seems to me to be about as useful as the Firewire port
> they seem to put on all high end boards. Does anyone here use their
> two motherboard NICs? Is there a great use for the extra NIC that I
> am unaware of? Has someone found a creative way to employ two NICs or
> is this just another dead feature that hasn't fallen to wayside as of
> yet?
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Best Regards:
Gaffer
Pontefract Linux User Group.
