Is This Possible?

[Karen0302]

I have a small 10/100 LAN consisting of 4 Windows XP systems connected to a LinkSys BEFSR41 Router using TCP/IP. The Router functions as the DHCP Host as well as the funnel for Internet access for all 4 systems.

What I would like to do is to add a secondary connection using 10/100/1000 NICs between 2 of the systems. I would like to do this without impacting the current confiuration or at least impacting it as little as possible.

Where I am having trouble is in figuring out how to access the systems which have both the 10/100 NICs and the 10/100/1000 NICs. From what I understand, when accessing a remote system on a LAN you must use the name that the target system is known by. Is it possible to assign 2 names to a system, one for each NIC? How would I go about accessing the systems with the 10/100/1000 NICs while still maintaining access to the rest of the LAN using 10/100?

I sure hope someone can help me here since I am rapidly getting out of my depth.

Karen

[LinkSys101]

this 10/100/1000 nic that you have, whos the manufacturer of this one.

[Karen0302]

I haven't actually purchased any of the hardware yet, but the 3 that I am looking at are from D-Link, Intel and LinkSys.

Karen

[Greenstead]

The name of the 'target system' on the LAN is the computername which you can only have one name on each computer. You can however use the IP address of the NIC on the computer e.g. 192.168.1.2 instead of the computername. Try it...go into Network places and map a drive by IP
e.g. \\192.168.1.2\shareddocs (or whatever your share name is).

Presumably you intend to connect two 10/100/1000 NICs directly with a cross over cable. You would need to assign them fixed IP addresses.

[LinkSys101]

i would have to agree of what greenstead prescribed to you karen.:)