Very Cool Network Question

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Hello! I had a question...


Is it possible to have on one computer, 2 network cards. Then route
traffic. For example, all webpages or maybe all outgoing connections on port
80 get routed to network card A. But all mail or port 25 Get routed to
network card 2.

Thanks!
-- Teenprogrammer

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Teenprogrammer said:
Hello! I had a question...


Is it possible to have on one computer, 2 network cards. Then route
traffic. For example, all webpages or maybe all outgoing connections
on port 80 get routed to network card A. But all mail or port 25 Get
routed to network card 2.
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Well, I don't know how cool it is but of course you can have more than
one network card in a computer. This is common for servers where you
have intranet and Internet traffic routed separately or for when you
want a computer to act as a firewall/router. Google should be your
starting point for questions like this. This search using "two ethernet
cards in server" as a search term brings up 9 million+ links.
Naturally, all 9 million will not be useful, but all the ones on the
first page look interesting.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=two+ethernet+cards+in+server&btnG=Google+Search

Malke
 
heh, I will continue searching, but if anyone knows how to, that would be
nice.... I have already been on google but thanks for giving me some more
specific search terms.

-- teenprogrammer
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Not sure what the point of that would be, bearing in mind that your ISP
webpage and mail all come down the same street.. as Malke stated, it is not
unknown for servers to have multiple networks cards installed, but it is not
done to get the 'effect' that you are asking about.. one might install two
NIC's in a home machine such that one accesses the internet but has complete
and separate control over what the home intranet 'sees and does'..
 
Well, This is for a computer that will be connected to 2 networks. One will
be a wireless network, the other will be a wired network. but they are not
the same. For example, I have a wireless network that will provide me with
fast website browsing (this one is wireless). The other network will be
proxyed and wont be very useful for much more than Internal Email.

-- Teenprogrammer
 
Well, This is for a computer that will be connected to 2 networks. One will
be a wireless network, the other will be a wired network. but they are not
the same. For example, I have a wireless network that will provide me with
fast website browsing (this one is wireless). The other network will be
proxyed and wont be very useful for much more than Internal Email.

-- Teenprogrammer
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Thats real cool dude - do you have a single ISP connection or several
otherwise the only point to doing this is to prove you can, there
ain't nothing wrong with fiddling for the sake of it thats how most
stuff gets fixed.

Get it sorted and report back - could be useful.

Jonah
 
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