[TriLUG] Extra NIC

[Jim Ray]

Little switches are so cheap and small these days that you're much
better off buying one.  Save yourself a lot of headache and buy one.

Now, if you just want to experiment, well, go for it.

With ISA NICs, forget it.  With PCI NICs, you only have two interrupts
to share with Intel architecture.  So, you have hardware resource issues
as more NICs go into the box.

Good luck!

-----Original Message-----
From: William Gomeringer [mailto:neisture at pihlopase.mine.nu] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 3:14 AM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: [TriLUG] Extra NIC

I asked this question before, but I seem to have lost any replys that I
got. So I will ask it again. I have run out of ports on my router. I
have a bunch of network cards lying around. Instead of buying a hub, can
I put one of these cards in a box that is connected to the router and
use that to plug in my laptop? The laptop is taken out of the house so
much that I have decided not to give it a permanent port on the router.
When I need network access I usually unplug someone else and plug in the
laptop. I really just need to upload information to the server when I
get home, i.e. notes, programming assignments, etc. How would I do
something like this? I know this much; I need a crossover cable. Any
suggestions? William



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