sharing, 2 interfaces, dedicated connection

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Ralph Zajac

Hi

I have 4 computers in my home network connected to the same linksys router.
Two of those computers are in my room. One of them is being used as a file
server, sharing files for the rest of the computers, and it's working
perfectly fine except: when I'm copping big files between my computer and
the server the other users are experiencing sluggish transfers. So I thought
I connect my computer and a server with additional connection using 2
network cards and configuring it as a separate network.

My question is: How can I make Windows to communicate with the file server
using only this "dedicated" connection?

network with 4 computers: 192.168.1.0
"dedicated" connection between my computer and the file server:192.168.2.0

Ralph
 
If you reference the computer by IP address only, that is
\\192.168.2.1\share vs \\server\share, it will always use your dedicated
link. ON a 100Mb network however, it's not likely that one connection to the
server is running the network up to capacity unless both ends have a RAID1
or something. Even the fastest IDE drives won't transfer data at 100Mb/sec
(most won't do much more than 1/2 of that). More likely it's the hardware on
the server that is being taxed to it's limit. A simple way to test is to go
open a file on the server from its own hard drive when the rest of the
network is slow and see if you notice a performance hit. I have a
workstation at work that gets backed up each night. If the backups don't
complete before I get to work, my computer runs like a dog until it
finishes, but I get no complaints of network slowness.

....kurt
 
Hi

Thank you for your response Kurt. I'll check it out.
Is there other way to do that except to refer to my backup server by its IP
address and share name?
Maybe there are other tricks with route and maybe some other commands that I
can try?

Ralph
 
If Windows has two LANs available to the same node, it was automatically
share the load between the two.
(Certainly 2000 onwards - might be different if you're using 98 :S)
As Kurt said, the only way to stop that is to specify an IP instead of a
hostname.
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