Good day folks. Hopefully posting this in the right place. I know there are many discussions all over the interwebs about this topic, but is it any good in bridging the onboard Realtek gigabit network controller of a Gigabyte motherboard and an ASUS PCI NIC that I've got laying around ? Some details first: this computer is sitting in my closet hosting and downloading torrents onto its hard drive It's got an Intel Xeon x5460 and 4Gb of RAM on it.....overkill ? Maybe, but that's not important (it was my old rig anyway). Its hard drive is shared, so it essentially acts as a NAS server: whenever I want to watch something I've downloaded, I navigate to its IP and there you go. Managing it is also easy via remote desktop. I'm aware a second NIC connected to the same router (a Dlink DIR-825 by the way) will not speed up the upload/download speeds, but perhaps it can at least contribute on the LAN somehow, particularly when I'm watching a movie or something stored on it.
To be fair, I've already tried it, but here's the weird part: after bridging the adapters and configuring the bridge, only the onboard NIC seems to "do" something, as the ASUS PCI NIC just sits there. Its status window only shows 1 received packet and 0 sent ones and its activity LED doesn't flash either, so it made me wonder whether it's contributing anything AT ALL or having the opposite effect and using up space and resources :| I know it's a silly project that's only appropriate for server-grade equipment, but can it work at all somehow, or am I better off sticking with the built in adapter ? Any thoughts ? Cheers.
To be fair, I've already tried it, but here's the weird part: after bridging the adapters and configuring the bridge, only the onboard NIC seems to "do" something, as the ASUS PCI NIC just sits there. Its status window only shows 1 received packet and 0 sent ones and its activity LED doesn't flash either, so it made me wonder whether it's contributing anything AT ALL or having the opposite effect and using up space and resources :| I know it's a silly project that's only appropriate for server-grade equipment, but can it work at all somehow, or am I better off sticking with the built in adapter ? Any thoughts ? Cheers.
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