Two NIC's on one server?? Help please :)

Hi im trying to help out a friend but we cant figure out how to do this. He is sure he's seen some type of configuration that can utilize two NIC's at the same time for faster file transfer from his server. He has 10 PC's hooked up to his server which has about 7TB's of storage. Here is his post to me.......

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hi i have got 2 lan card in my network as i am using file server on xp and i have two difeent switches on is lan 1GB and the other is 100 mps i am wanting to setup both lan cards to run on the same network on two diffent swtiches as thier is a lot of network traffic i added this second one so i can still keep the network running fast while thier is a lot file tranfering going on

Hello,

I would think that your friend could either setup two separate routes with different IP addresses on each NIC and then specify which one is to used by either hostname or IP address, or set up some kind of link aggregation, however, in that case, I think the NICs have to be the same speed and going through the same switch.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky