Multiple NIC card question

[imported_manchild]

I initially posted this question in the General forum but was wisely advised to post here so sorry if you've already seen this:

I have a windows 2000 pro, Athlon64, MSI K8N Neo with an onboard ethernet adapter (nForce3) and also have a PCI ethernet card I could add in. Is there a way to have both of them active and specify certain applications to only use one NIC and everything else use the other?

I'm not trying to get any more speed than I already have, my problem is that for some reason the nForce3 NIC is not compatible with my file sharing program, it causes it crash periodically - Soulseek, that is. Other people have solved this issue by just using a PCI NIC instead of the onboard one and the problem goes away but it just seems such a waste to not use the onboard NIC. So then I thought it might be cool to have the PCI ethernet connection dedicated to filesharing with Soulseek and the onboard nForce ethernet connection for everything else.

 

[Nothinman]

Not easily. You should complain to nVidia or MSI about their crappy NICs and/or drivers.

 

[n0cmonkey]

SEARCH 😉

 

[imported_manchild]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
SEARCH 😉

I just love responses like that. Thank you.

 

[JackMDS]

Quote: It just seems such a waste to not use the onboard NIC.

Waste of what? There are NICs that are sold for $0 after rebate, or $5 if you do not want to wait for rebate.

You getting Nonsense Answers coz there is No Functional Technical answer.

The None technical answer is: ?Let Go, it is Not Family, it is just a piece of Plastic and Silicone?.

:sun:

 

[imported_manchild]

I know, you're right, I guess I'm just complicating things.

Thanks.