Multiple NIC cards?

[imported_manchild]

I have a windows 2000 system, Athlon64, MSI K8N Neo with an onboard ethernet adapter (nForce3) and also have a PCI ethernet card I could add in. If I do add the second NIC, will I be able to use both of them at the same time and is there a way to specify certain applications to only use one NIC and everything else use the other?

 

[JackMDS]

Using regular OS (Like WinXP) if the two NICs are configured on two Separate Independent LANs they can work at the same time (as much as IRQ management can be called same time).

In doing so an application would use the LAN that it told to use.

However if your dream is an Internet ?Speed Machine".

Link to: Combining two Internet Connections - Combining Bandwidth, or and Load Balancing of two Internet connections.

:sun:

 

[Matthias99]

You might try the Networking forum for this.

You can have two NICs, and get two addresses via DHCP, but I'm not sure how you would make applications talk to one rather than the other, or if you could make Windows load-balance.

 

[imported_manchild]

Thanks guys, I'll try posting in Networking too, I forgot about that.

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. Pipe dream?

 

[ribbon13]

Route the UDP/TCP range that slsk uses to the IP assigned to the PCI NIC at the router. Presto!