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

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ManuTOmanU

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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...
 
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.
 
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!!!
 
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
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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?
 
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.
 
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