Setting up 1 PC for 2 different networks?

[probedb]

Hi all,

My motherboard has 2 network cards and I'm wanting to plugin in to 2 different networks using WinXP Pro. One network will be a typical home network, connected to the net via a router, but the other will just be plugged into another PC via a crossover cable.

How do these work? How do you connect to 2 different Windows workgroups etc.

I've looked at network setup guides but they're all for a normal home network.

Anyone have any experience of this?

Cheers

Paul.

 

[shine]

Can I ask why you are not connecting both PC's to the router?

 

[probedb]

Can I ask why you are not connecting both PC's to the router?

I don't want one PC connected to the internet at all. Keeping it on a separate network seems the safest way to me.

 

[Sone]

if you don't want internet, just connect both to the router and use netbeui between the 2 pc's?

 

[shine]

I don't want one PC connected to the internet at all. Keeping it on a separate network seems the safest way to me.

If your router supports it you could just disable internet access for that PC.

 

[smids]

If your router supports it you could just disable internet access for that PC.

What I was about to say. I have a fileserver connected to my router and all I did was use parental controls to completely block internet traffic to it. I will eventually use it for something like FTP but I won't for now, hence I blocked it.

You can just LAN the PC's together if you want - create a manual IP address and gateway for it, then use Run> //computername to access any shared folders you have setup on it.

 

[probedb]

I'll give it a go. Never messed with two network cards on the same PC before. I'll try and remember to post my experiences.

 

[probedb]

Just an update on this.

Setup one network with 192.168.0.*, the other on 10.0.0.*, working fine and have no idea the other is there