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Using Multiple NIC's One For Lab And One For The Internet. Confused.
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| Pez D Spencer 2005-03-12, 2:40 pm |
| I will be building a cisco lab soon and I have question about multiple NIC's in a single PC.
I plan on adding an additional NIC to my PC with the idea of having one NIC connected to the lab for the purpose of ping/telent/etc. and the other NIC connected to my cable modem and the internet.
See my attached drawing for a visual depiction. Sorry for the quality. I ain't no Picasso.
My question is when I pull up a command prompt and issue a ping then how does Windows know which NIC to direct the ping to? | |
| goalied00d 2005-03-12, 9:57 pm |
| You would set up that pc to run as a gateway. The nic the moedem is attached to will have the external IP and the nic connected to the lab you will have to setup with a network address.
I suggest connecting the first router to the NIC then connect the second router via serial, then use the ethernet port on the second router to connect the cisco switch.
Here's a diagram.
http://host53.hrwebservices.net/~ajouven/images/pezlab.jpg | |
| Just Visiting 2005-03-23, 6:27 am |
| Why not put the whole lab and PC behind a cable/dsl router? They could all live happily there on a private network.
-JV | |
| zxmjkxz 2005-04-22, 7:18 am |
| Wouldn't it be better to go from the modem to one router ethernet port then use NAT/PAT to go to the rest??? I was going to dom that actually but an IOS I was trying to install was giving me errors... |
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