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LAN party tomorrow night..get dual NICs for file sharing?

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MemoryInAGarden

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I'm going to a public LAN tomorrow (60+ ppl) and people will probably be grabbing a lot of files off of me. Would dual NICs help balance out the load while I'm gaming and people are getting something off of me?
 
Dual NICs are only really helpful in fairly high end enterprise situations. To the best of my knowledge, dual NICs will help only if there is seperate network for filesharing and another for gaming, or if the switch to which you are connecting is trunking aware. Unless this is a public LAN sponsored by Cisco systems or something, the switches probably won't be trunking aware. See http://www.itworld.com/Net/1750/NWW001113tech/
Short answer, possible in theory, probably not in this situation. If you can(I don't know anything about public lan's policies on this sort of thing) knocking together an old fileserver box and bringing that with you as well(set it up headless and VNC into it from your main rig if you need to leach from others) would probably be more efficient. If you don't have the time or spare bits between now and then, and it is quite possible that you won't, I don't think that there is too much to be done.
 
Excellent post, phisrow.

If you ever had the inkling of messing with unix or linux, and had a spare evening or two and a spare box, now is the time.
mandrake ISO's
I don't recommend mandrake above any other distro. I am installing redhat9 on a server right now, and have fedora running, as well as freebsd. To each his/her own!

Here is the faq for configuring samba.

For a fileserver and local webhost, install httpd ( apache) and samba. That is all you'll need above the base configuration. You can come back later and add different applications as needed.
 
this was just today mentioned on dansdata:
http://www.dansdata.com/io039.htm (about halfway trough)

So I think that 2 NIC's wont help much, in general when you get leeched from your I/O is so occupied yer system is paralyzed. (one of the flaws in windows imho, it doesnt really multitask the I/O)
 
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