2 NIC in one PC

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cyberAsk

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I learnt that a PC can have morethan one NIC card at a time! Can someone please let me know why, what benefit, and example of it's practical use?

Thanks
 
Well the benifit i suppose would simply be that you could connect 2 things that need an ethernet port to a computer at one time, for example a practical use of it would be to connect an adsl modem to one port and then the network switch to the other, this way you could share your internet connection, and i'm not sure about this but possibly you could connect to more than one network at once :confused:
 
Yeah, there's no real benefit as stated... I had two once in a server to try and make a router. It worked ok, but it's more trouble than the little Linksys router we have.

I beleive you could connect to two networks, but you'd have to specify which card to use and all. Again, you'd probably have many problems...
 
One other advantage is if you want to have only one computer hooked up to the internet and then have a home network... Works well for keeping most of the viruses, adware and such in the one spot... :)
 
say you couldnt afford a fancy wireless card and you want to connect your notebook to your network but your hub had no ports left a new hub may b £50 but a network card£3 and a crossover cable 50p. so you could use it for that, and bridge the 2 cards
 
cyberAsk said:
I learnt that a PC can have morethan one NIC card at a time! Can someone please let me know why, what benefit, and example of it's practical use?

Thanks
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you could but why not just get a switch?
 
Perhaps if you had an on board 10/100 and you bought a 10/1000. That's the only thig I could think of, but who really needs gigabit ethernet?
 
Perfect for partitioning traffic to "middle tier" machines, such as those running JSP, ASP, PHP based web servers. With two ethernet ports, one can connect to external internet, other can connect to internal database on another machine for example. If no route is setup, the web server can access database as required, but no direct access to the database is available to hackers.

Sounds good to us...
 
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