Traffic routing w/ 2 NICs...

[rb001]

I'm on a school network that enforces limits on filesharing traffic by capping your entire connection down to 5 kB/s. I have access to two ethernet ports = 2 unique IPs. Is it possible to connect to the same network w/ two different NICs, having one handle some types of traffic like bittorrent, while the rest of my traffic goes through the other NIC?
I'm running win2k with one onboard nvidia nic and have a secondary 3com card.

 

[sharq]

Or if your school was anything like mine, wait around for the ppl who are throwing out old P1's during the year, mainly though at the end of the semesters and use that for bittorrent etc.
To answer your q, I don't know, but I don't think its possible. I could be wrong.

 

[JackMDS]

It doe not work with 2 cards since the Network is in power of 2. I.e. 2 in the power of 2=4. So may be it will work with 4 Cards.

But may be I am wrong, since by cheating the school you invoke the PolyGraphNIC.

 

[Cheetah8799]

As a sys admin at a college I would say to avoid it. It sounds like there is already a bandwidth problem at your school, especially if they have gone as far as restricting bandwidth for filesharing app. There may be network admins activly seeking guys like you just to shut you down and turn off BOTH your network ports.

Also, during peak times (8am - about 5pm) don't expect much speed if the school has bandwidth problems. That's when all the staff AND students are digging up their porn on the internet... We use Packeteer to limit bandwidth for filesharers. During the late night, it gives it back to them if nobody else needs it. Maybe you will have faster connections at night. During the day it almost cust off the filesharing apps completely and gives more to internet browsing and email.

If you really want to get more bandwidth, why don't you get a group of students together to write up a petition for the school to invest in another T1 line dedicated to the dorms. They aren't cheap, and the computing department probably can't get the administrative folks to invest enough money in IT. If the students get together and petition for more IT support, maybe they will listen.

 

[rb001]

You're probably right, even as bad as the network here is, being cut off would be worse. The whole network infrastructure is pretty bad to begin with. the uni has a partial t3 (~2500 kB/s) for the whole school (5000+ living on campus). during the day, 8am-6pm or so, the dorms are capped, but even during off hours the speed's crummy (10-20k/s) with lots of timeouts & dropped packets. students have been complaining for several years without much success

thanks for the replies though .

 

[AFB]

the uni has a partial t3 (~2500 kB/s)

Not a T3 .


What is with all these combinded bandwith ploys lately?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Start up a filesharing service for the dorms. Setup a bit torrent tracker, or an ftp, or even an open share. This has the added benefits of not using the school to internet link AND you might get to know some of your neighbors a bit better. There are plenty of people looking to share there in the dorms, and probably a few that have something new to share. Setup a tracker, or IRC server, or ftp server, or open shares, and print off a couple of posters for people. News will spread, the internet link could get a little better, fewer nasty admins breathing down your neck, and maybe meet some people.

Maybe this is just a dumb idea though...

 

[AFB]

It couldn't hurt to try.

 

[sharq]

My school has a local file server. They also get dropped connections/packets during peak hours to the internet. So, to reduce the load on the internet connection since they were also getting capped and individual students were losing their connections, one person has setup a website that links all the items ppl are sharing. These shares are available via windows sharing/Samba, and also via ftp. I have no idea how they did it, but I know it's used heavily in the lab. Whenever I was working in the lab, I'd always see one person dl'ing something from the campus share site.