I use both NICs. One is for the normal home network, the other I use for virtual machines that run through an encrypted VPN :)
lopaka ________________________________ From: Winterlight <winterli...@winterlight.org> To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Sent: Sat, May 4, 2013 1:01:30 PM Subject: Re: [H] Two NICs 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? > > >-- >Best Regards: > Gaffer > Pontefract Linux User Group.
