Here's a thought...

Hobbes

If I have two network cards, can I plug them both in and use them to send/receive twice the amount of data? (I'm not talking about games, but does NT support it?)

Karla

Wouldn't you need four for that? Like two for each machine?
Or else use some kind of an adaptor, putting two lines into one faster card.
I'm probly wrong tho

Hobbes

No, what I was thinking was say I was transferring a file from machine A to machine B.

Now machine A has multiple hubs it can connect to, don't know about machine B (and we don't care )

So I'm sending data out one network cable, but my thought is, if you had two network cards, could it balance the load across the two cards? I'm sure this is a simple answer

MiCr0

yes

MiCr0

or no...
which is more likely

would it work with 2 graphics cards though?

[This message has been edited by MiCr0 (edited 14-08-99).]

Hobbes

Well you could with gfx cards, but not AGP. And you would run two monitors off it.

Helv

I pretty mush doubt it. There would be some sort of IP conflict or something. Actually I might try it sometime, but as I said I don't think it would work. What you are trying to say, just so I get it straight that the 2 netowrk cards would split the data load to get twice the transfer rate?

WhiteWashMan

yeah simon,
you can. but the machine sending must be able to support sending twice as much data. actually now that i think about it im not sure. i know you can do it with a modem and 2 phone lines, but as for network adapters im not sure.
i'll try an find out today

Hobbes

Yea Helv, and thanks WWMan

Canaboid

The simple answer is no. NT supports multi homed configurations (more than one nic) but it won't use them the way u suggest. It will send or recieve an individual file over one or the other but not both. Also there is no way to specify which one to use.

Helv

I have been reliably informed that it wont work, like Canoboid said. You might posssibly need some sort of third party device.
But as I was saying it can be done on a unix box with quad-fx cards tied together with some sort of software.

[This message has been edited by Helv (edited 19-08-99).]

Helv

I think that kind of thing can be done with Unix boxes,where you can bunch together a few 10/100 cards, which is totally irrelevelent here.