Gerald
Thu May 27 06:11:17 CDT 2004
This proposed solution will also be better in terms of
network design.
Your installation with two nics in the two PC's has the
potential to create a loop between the two 100Mbps ports
on your original LAN (via the Gig connections), which
will bring your network tumbling down.
>-----Original Message-----
>Not between the two workstations assuming you have a
gigabit switch. I
>didn't think you cared about the speed to the rest of
the network,
>just between the two workstations. A good switch should
set the port
>speed based on what the connected device allows.
>
>"skc" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>Won't that downgrade the signal from 1Gig to 100Mpbs?
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>How about disabling the old slow nics? Connect the
fast
>>switch up to
>>>the existing network. The 2 workstations talk to each
>>other through
>>>the fast nics. The switch and two nics talks to the
rest
>>of the
>>>network through the one network port. The same thing
>>people do all the
>>>time when they do not want to pull a new cat 5 run to
a
>>workgroup area
>>>when they get a new coputer. They just hang a new
switch
>>in the
>>>workgroup area and everyonein the workgroup works off
>>the workgroup
>>>switch which also has a connection to the rest of the
>>network.
>>>
>>>"skc" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>We are running SBS2000 with around 40 Windows 2000
Pro
>>>>clients.
>>>>
>>>>A particular user uses two workstations (or clients) -
>>one
>>>>to run a program on that reads a database and the
other
>>>>machine contains the database files. As we are using
>>>>100Mbps network through 3COM OfficeConnect switches,
I
>>>>thought it may be a good idea to have a Gigabit link
>>(peer-
>>>>to-peer) between both machines for data transfer and
>>fast
>>>>data reads.
>>>>
>>>>I have bought D-Link Gigabit NICs and a Gigabit
switch
>>>>with CAT6 leads - installed them on both machines, so
>>each
>>>>of the two machines now have 2 NICs - one for the SBS
>>>>network running at 100MBps and the other Gigabit peer-
to-
>>>>peer running through a switch at 1Gig.
>>>>
>>>>I can see through the "show status on task bar" -
(the
>>two
>>>>small tvs) that the link is 1Gig.
>>>>
>>>>Question is - how do I test that data is going
through
>>the
>>>>1Gig NICs and switch? Do I disable the SBS LAN NIC?
I
>>>>don't want to do that as the user constantly looks at
>>>>Exchange via Outlook2002 client.
>>>>
>>>>I need help on this please.
>>>>
>>>>Skc
>>>
>>>Jim B. SBS MVP
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>>>.
>>>
>
>Jim B. SBS MVP
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