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Hello, I'm new to these forums, but have checked out speedguide.net from time to time and now I have a question.

Using XP I have two NIC's getting two different IP addresses through my cable connection. I bridged the connection's and it has formed one IP address, which appears to be another cable IP. I guess my question is, is it actually using those other IP's anymore? If it isn't using those IP's would I actually need to have a total of 4 network cards in the machine to create a true bridge? Finally, the whole purpose of this bridge is to create some redundancy while surfing the net, i.e. to avoid dead server requests like when you go to a page and it hangs or brings up a 404 error even though you know the page is working fine, will the second IP on the bridge try and pick up where the first bridged IP isn't getting a response?

I hope this makes sense.

Thanks,

~S

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Thanks,

~S

You have a single cable modem? Not sure what you are making redundant. I don't see how what you are doing will help (tho that doesn't mean that it doesn't). Seems like you are trying to load balance across your own webserver...?

Single cable modem, with multiple IP's. I know it's a long shot, and I'm not trying to load balance, I was just asking a hypothetical question more or less to see if say IP 24.x.x.1 got a stalled page, could I get IP 24.x.x.2 to automatically request another? The redundancy would just be in requesting new pages off the 2nd IP. Redundancy as far as an actual data pipe isn't really what I'm looking for, and I know isn't possible in this case.

~S

Got me. I always use the reload button

Good luck,

Skye

Yeah, me too. It was just one of those odd ideas I had.

Thanks though.

~S