bilfwebb
01-07-06, 08:44 AM
Hi,
I recently was given an old laptop, and keep it on 24/7, instead of using the Desktop PC - which was way to noisy.
I also inherited 4 x pcmcia laptop Ethernet adapters - which can all go in the laptop (with the docking station attached there is 4 x pcmcia slots total). I also have a load of pci (Desktop PC) Ethernet cards lying about. And crossover cables. See where I'm going with this?
If I Networked the Desktop & Laptop using all the above, so end up with 4 x 100mbps Ethernet networks between them.
Can I set up some sort of load balanced network ? What if I bridged the 4 network connections on each machine? Gave them all the same ip addresses (eg, 4 cards in laptop 192.168.0.10, and the 4 cards in Desktop 192.168.0.11)
What about mapping each of the network paths to one folder on each PC, and have a load balanced 400mbps ish network?
Or will I just work when the 4 'network connections' are mapped to 4 different locations?
I'm not wanting 4 seperate network path's mapped to 4 locations, but rather use the 4 cards to map 1 network path, and share the workload as each nic reaches saturation.
Just trying to find out if its possible...
I recently was given an old laptop, and keep it on 24/7, instead of using the Desktop PC - which was way to noisy.
I also inherited 4 x pcmcia laptop Ethernet adapters - which can all go in the laptop (with the docking station attached there is 4 x pcmcia slots total). I also have a load of pci (Desktop PC) Ethernet cards lying about. And crossover cables. See where I'm going with this?
If I Networked the Desktop & Laptop using all the above, so end up with 4 x 100mbps Ethernet networks between them.
Can I set up some sort of load balanced network ? What if I bridged the 4 network connections on each machine? Gave them all the same ip addresses (eg, 4 cards in laptop 192.168.0.10, and the 4 cards in Desktop 192.168.0.11)
What about mapping each of the network paths to one folder on each PC, and have a load balanced 400mbps ish network?
Or will I just work when the 4 'network connections' are mapped to 4 different locations?
I'm not wanting 4 seperate network path's mapped to 4 locations, but rather use the 4 cards to map 1 network path, and share the workload as each nic reaches saturation.
Just trying to find out if its possible...