Two network cards in one computer

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Hey all....

I searched for this topic and didnt find exactly what I needed....

here is what I have....

I have my basic dual core windows XP Pro x64 machine

I have the onboard ethernet card which is connected to a rounter which takes
care of my in home network

I also have a piece of equipment that runs via ethernet cable so one of the
ports on my router goes to the equipment. I am trying to figure out a
problem which the equipment manufacturer says might be a communications
problem thru the router.

so to find out, I need to add a network card in this case and then plug the
equipment into it and bypass the router...

my question is how do I go about doing this? setting up the new card and
setting all the setting I need....

I know I will need a crossover cat 5 cable, which I have made up...

hopefully if this fixes the problem, I will want to keep it this way.....

any and all help would be appreciated...

thanks
JT
 
Hi
A Router is a combo unit of a Switch and Routing circuit (with an Access
Point if it is also Wireless).
Local traffic uses the Switch part and has nothing to do with the Router
per-se.
Therefore, it is hard to believe that a network ready device cannot work
with a Switch.
However you can use a dual NICs on the WinXP computer. Configure the second
NIC and the equipment's NIC to a different subnet than the Router's subnet.
E.g. Router Network 192.168.1.x second NIC 192.168.100.x
Doing so creates two independent networks, however since you are using WinXP
Pro you can Bridge the two networks.
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/.../en-us/hnw_understanding_bridge.mspx?mfr=true
Jack (MVP-Networking).
 
Unless there is a problem with the built in network adapter in your computer
you don't need to put another network adapter in it.

Most likely the problem is not the router either because you are simply
using the built in switch on your router and not the router function itself.
First thing I would try is to use a different network cable and try a
different port on the switch for the problem device which if you could tell
use more about someone may be able to help further.

You can connect your computer directly to the device using your current
network adapter but since neither would then connected to the router you
would need to manually configure each device to have static IP info and be
on the same network.

Possibly the device in question is currently configured to have a static IP
that is not on the same network as the router which would explain
connectivity problems. I like to use the free port scanner Angry IP scanner
to see what hosts are on a network.

http://www.angryziber.com/ipscan/ --- Angry IP scanner

Steve
 
Hey all....

I searched for this topic and didnt find exactly what I needed....

here is what I have....

I have my basic dual core windows XP Pro x64 machine

I have the onboard ethernet card which is connected to a rounter which takes
care of my in home network

I also have a piece of equipment that runs via ethernet cable so one of the
ports on my router goes to the equipment. I am trying to figure out a
problem which the equipment manufacturer says might be a communications
problem thru the router.

so to find out, I need to add a network card in this case and then plug the
equipment into it and bypass the router...

my question is how do I go about doing this? setting up the new card and
setting all the setting I need....

I know I will need a crossover cat 5 cable, which I have made up...

hopefully if this fixes the problem, I will want to keep it this way.....

any and all help would be appreciated...

thanks
JT
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Every network device (PC, router, ???) must have an IP address
assigned to it. Do you know the IP address of this device?
 
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