How to make use of two NICs? What about vmware?

thauer · n00b Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 22 Location: Switzerland

Hi,

In my home desktop system I happen to have a mobo with two network interfaces. (They work fine, show up as eth0 and eth1, I *very* rarely use both - one to the internet, other to my laptop through a twisted cable, no question here).

What I want to know is: can I make any use of the two NICs in everyday life? I am on ADSL through a router which does have free ports, thus plugging both cables in, getting two IP addresses is not a problem... but is there any gain? And if yes, how should I set this up to take most advantage? What's the best routing? Any insight is appreciated.

On a closely related note, I often run vmware server quite a bit under linux (with a windows guest). In those cases it would naively make sense to dedicate one of the NICs to the host, the other directly to the guest. Anyone knows how to do this?

Thanks a lot,

Tamas

xoomix · Guru Joined: 02 Jan 2003 Posts: 489

The VMware part is easy to answer - just 'add' a NIC to your VM and point it to your second NIC.

thauer · n00b Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 22 Location: Switzerland

xoomix · Guru Joined: 02 Jan 2003 Posts: 489

After re-reading your post I realized that vmware-server is a little different from Workstation. With vmware-server you should be able to config a different NIC by re-running the vmware-config.pl script and changing it there.