Has anybody used 2 same brand/model network cards in the same box?

[Zex]

Despite the problem of how to distinguish one from the other in control panel, I was told that MSWindows (98/Me/2000) has problems if you use two same brand/model network cards.

Can somebody confirm this? Fact or just noise?

Now, everything is working for me, except for a long boot process that did not happen with only one of the cards installed. Please check previous post:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=36&threadid=450128

 

[reicherb]

I've used 2 Netgear FA310 cards and 2 Netgear FA311 cards in Windows 2000 without any problems.

 

[TBP]

I have two linksys 100mb PCI in the same machine (win2k) and everything is fine.

 

[Zex]

Thanks... I guess I was rigth - I have two 3Comm oem... But the slow startup is killlllling me! Do you think removing/detecting both devices migth help? Will Windows reassign interrupts, since I do not like the way they are now?

 

[blstriker]

The only problem you may have is distiguishing which card is which when you setup your network (ICS, wingate, sygate). Take a guess, if you're wrong, choose the other one. There shouldn't be any hardware incompability.

 

[goldboyd]

it will work fine. i've found it easier to install 1, set it up, then install the other, that way you dont have to worry about getting the 2 mixed up