Is there any NIC that is capable doing dsl and home networks?

[ManuTOmanU]

I have two computers that I wanna connect to eachother, plus I am going to get dsl...

Both of them would use up one NIC, is there any card that does this in one? It would give me 1 free pci slot...

 

[Need4Speed]

yes...there are dual port nic cards...actually i think they make quad port cards as well. check the 3com site or search google.com for dual port nics.

 

[ManuTOmanU]

ok great thank you...

 

[Xtreme11]

if you get sygate home office www.sygate.com, they have software that allows you to use 1 NIC for both DSL and network hook-up and share the DSL through it. Check it out, it's pretty cool!!!

 

[ManuTOmanU]

wow those things are expencive...

3COM etherlink server 10/100 pci dual port nic 5-pk 3c982-txm-5pk new & factory sealed $ 961

little too much... lol:Q

 

[esung]

You planed to share DSL right? I end up using a hardware router, less headache this way then the software solution (sygate, winproxy, NAT32, ICS). And you only need one NIC as well, as long as you use a hub or get a router that has a build in switch.

 

[ManuTOmanU]

too expencive for right now... I might upgrade later on, but not anywhere soon... I am mainly using the internet on this computer... so I am just playing around... actually there is no real need, but... well

 

[mofo888]

well, if you have one of those lame USB external DSL modem...you
would have a free pci slot. heh.

 

[obenton]

A USB NIC would work fine for the external connection. Also, if your DSL connection doesn't use DHCP you could bind tcp/ip twice to your present PCI NIC, once for the LAN and once for the external connection - this is similar to the Sygate solution - but this would slow down your LAN connection to the internet and probably the LAN as well. You could also use an ISA NIC for the external connection - this worked fine for me with win98 (but not with w2k - installed and connected OK, but couldn't send packets beyond the DSL gateway). I'd go with USB.

 

[(Chanse)]

Quick somewhat related question. I have a Linksys, but not using it due to a few issues now, and set up my cable modem into my Pc-1 nic (D-link). Installed a second nic(3com) to run to hub, to connect to second pc. PC-2 gets on the web fine using Sygate, but it cannot see PC-1. I had set both pc's to specify an internal ip( 192.168.***.*) to see each oter, but my cable requires to "obtain automatically" How do i set seperate settings in 2 nics on same pc. If i change d-link settings it automatically sets the same for 3com, and vice versa?

 

[The Stigenator]

Dlink has one.. check them out.. i think its 4 port hough.

 

[spirites]

some nics under 9X are able to be "installed twice" by just adding another tcpip. My 3com 3c509 was working like that. Under unix/linux its a joke to do. Sygate can do it for you as mentioned above. Just remember that this will be a performance hit since all traffic goes through that one network card and also if you wantes security you won't get it the same as 2 cards or a hardware solution.