Bridged NIC's

fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
edited May 2004 in Science & Tech
2 PC's, each has onboard NIC. Add PCI NICs to each pc and bridge them through WinXP(Bridge onboard with pci nic in each pc). All going through 4 port 10/100 router. Would this increase file transfer speeds between the 2pcs? TIA

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  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    For bridge, crossover cable, direct PC<->PC faster, no router conversation needed. Crossover cable can be 250' long max for 80% effectiveness or better.

    For NIC<->Router<->NIC, XP will try to set up LAN connects, fight a bridge hookup. Got a few LAN vs. XP-firefighter t-shirts trying that NIC bridge through router, so to speak... AND was slower than direct bridging when I got it working. Using a firewire bridge now, faster yet. :D
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    Anyone else tried this?
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited May 2004
    When your saying "bridged". What are you using to combine them? The "bridge" option in XP under network connections for instance is a software bridge between two networks with differant tcpip address ranges. That may not be what your talking about. I understand the concept your wanting and I know Linux has the option but I don't know a cheap way to do it with win2k or XP for example.
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    Tex wrote:
    When your saying "bridged". What are you using to combine them? The "bridge" option in XP under network connections for instance is a software bridge between two networks with differant tcpip address ranges. That may not be what your talking about. I understand the concept your wanting and I know Linux has the option but I don't know a cheap way to do it with win2k or XP for example.

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  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited May 2004
    That doesnt do what you wish it did. Its connecting two tcp-ip networks with differant ip address ranges.

    So if you had one set of computers with address ranges like 192.168.0.1 thru 192.168.0.999

    and another set with 192.168.1.1 thru 192.168.1.999 you could "bridge" them and they could see network shared drives and stuff.

    Yes I have done that quite a few times. But its not combining the bandwidth of say two seperate gigabit NIC's into a single 2 gigabit connection and thats what you wanted.

    Tex
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    Tex wrote:
    That doesnt do what you wish it did. Its connecting two tcp-ip networks with differant ip address ranges.

    So if you had one set of computers with address ranges like 192.168.0.1 thru 192.168.0.999

    and another set with 192.168.1.1 thru 192.168.1.999 you could "bridge" them and they could see network shared drives and stuff.

    Yes I have done that quite a few times. But its not combining the bandwidth of say two seperate gigabit NIC's into a single 2 gigabit connection and thats what you wanted.

    Tex

    well, that just sucks...oh well
    Thanks Tex as always
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited May 2004
    Wish I had a more favorable answer for ya Bud.

    Tex
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