Dual Lan - Help Needed

milanlad · Post by **milanlad** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 10:09 am

I have a Epia Mini-ITX system with on-board LAN which supports Wake-on-Lan, which works fine. However, this system has a Cardbus interface in which I use a D-Link Gigabit Ethernet PC Card (DGE-660TD), which unfortunately doesn't support Wake-on-Lan.

Can I possibly connect both Lan adapters to my Switch? I'm thinking I could use the Gigabit Cardbus for all my normal use, and the on-board Lan purely for the Wake-on-Lan feature? (Sorry if this is a datf idea!)

I am using Windows XP Pro on this machine.

Any help appreciated.

FunK · Post by **FunK** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:01 pm

Is there something that the onboard NIC doesn't do that you need from the cardbus adaptor?

If not, just stick with the one that does what you want.

If it's the 'gigabit' you want, it's pretty pointless unless you're LAN fully supports Gig-E end to end.

milanlad · Post by **milanlad** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:40 pm

FunK wrote:Is there something that the onboard NIC doesn't do that you need from the cardbus adaptor?

If not, just stick with the one that does what you want.

If it's the 'gigabit' you want, it's pretty pointless unless you're LAN fully supports Gig-E end to end.

Yes, I need the 'Gigabit' thing, and yes, my LAN does indeed support 'Gigabit' end to end.

Blisster · Post by **Blisster** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:41 am

I think you should be able to connect the on-board NIC, give it a static IP address but no default gateway and you should be able to hit that interface to send the wake on command but not interfere with the rest of the operations of the system/network.

milanlad · Post by **milanlad** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:57 am

Blisster wrote:I think you should be able to connect the on-board NIC, give it a static IP address but no default gateway and you should be able to hit that interface to send the wake on command but not interfere with the rest of the operations of the system/network.

Thanks Blisster. Someone else also suggested that so I will try it.

If I connect the on-board Lan to the network and give it a Static IP address, will this have any impact on the PC's resources?

FunK · Post by **FunK** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:03 pm

milanlad wrote:Yes, I need the 'Gigabit' thing, and yes, my LAN does indeed support 'Gigabit' end to end.

Lucky you!!

As far as resources, I would think that one NIC, only used for Wake, wouldn't be much at all. Wouldn't even notice it..

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 7:01 am

milanlad wrote:If I connect the on-board Lan to the network and give it a Static IP address, will this have any impact on the PC's resources?

Yes it will use up some more resources versus having just one NIC. Multi-homed rigs will take a bit longer to boot...since you're loading up another set of drivers, protocol(s) for that NIC, any services you have bound to that NIC....and services dependent on those.

Speaking of services, you'll probably want to unbind the server and workstation services from that NIC (I don't think wake need that)...else you'll have duplicate broadcasting on the same network....not a good thing.