Machines With 2 nics = Network Problems

ZXSpectrum

ZXSpectrum

ZXSpectrum

Soldato
Joined
20 Oct 2002
Posts
11,977
Location
Derby
Righty... I currently have a little network setup as follows:

5 Machines in total:

3 x PC

1 is my standard machine With a motherboard with 2 NIC's 1x10/100 and 1 Gig
2 Is my download server With Standard 2 NIC's 1 10/100 (Onboard) and 1 Gig (D-Link Add in card)
3 is my neighbours machine that shares the network and internet via wireless.

Others:

4 XBOX with XBOX Media Center
5 XBOX 360

Router:

Netgear WGU624

All machines are connected to the Router via the 10/100 ports

Machines 1 and 2 are also connected together via the Gig nics with a cat 5 cable.

If i have the 2 gig nics disabled the network works fine... i can see all of the machines in the workgroup, transfer files, etc without a problem... XBMC works fine.

But if i connect up the 2 nics together (To transfer files between my machine and the download server faster) with 2 totaly different ip addresses and no Default DNS or Default Gateway i struggle browsing the network... I cannot see the workgroup from XBMC but i can transfer files to the xbox with the other 2 machines. The RSS feeds seem to work fine though etc...

If i change the ip adresses to the same range it still displays the fault... But if i disable them everything works fine again...

Hope i have been clear... lol!

Any ideas?
 
If you are running 2k/2k3 server on machine 2 you could do this by setting up RRAS.

PC->Server-> Switch -> other curd (ie pc is not directly connected to switch)

Put PC and server 1000mbit on 192.168.0.0/24 network
Otherkit and server nic 100mbit on 192.168.1.0/24 network. Setup netgear router and server to run RIP (using RRAS). (or use static routes if thats your bag)



Everything should then be fine.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom