WIndows XP Dual NIC's

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Mike Stevens

We have a windows xp machine with 2 NICs in it. Whats interesting is that
the incoming data is on one and the outgoing is on the other. I have seen
this before in 2000 machines but what exactly is this called and what in
windows tells the NICs to do this?

Thanks

Mike
 
What are your two NICs connected to? How can you tell that one is for
incoming data while the other is for outgoing data?

In any case, having 2 NICs in one computer is not at all unusual. Folks
using Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) in a 2-computer LAN will need two
NICs in the Host computer. One of the NICs connects to the other computer's
NIC via a CAT 5 crossover cable. The other NIC in the Host computer connects
to a modem.

The setup I just described is not confined to Windows XP or Windows 2000, it
came into practice with the introduction of Windows 98 second edition.

Regards.
 
I have a question about dual NICs. I have two networks,
one a slower 10 Mbit coax network, and one 100 Mbit.

Most of the clients in our network are on the slower coax,
but most of what I do could take advantage of using the
100 Mbit NIC as the 'priority'. Is there a way to have XP
use the 100 Mbit NIC for accessing the computers on the
100 Mbit network (which are also on the 10 Mbit network)
and just have the 10 Mbit card used as a 'backup'?

Right now it seems like most of my network accessing is
using the slower coax network as the default.

Thanks!

-Pete(r)
 
i have 2 NIC's for testing and redundancy purposes. They are connected to
the same switch on the WAN each with one external IP.

I am the IT admin of our company and run a slew of servers one of which is
an ISA machine which of course has 2 NIC's in it. But we are not using this
machine for that purpose. More because the machine was having problems with
certain NIC's so i slapped a second in for testing and fault tolerance of
sorts.

I know that incoming data was on one NIC and outgoing was on the other. But
why does it do this?

Thanks

Mike
 
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