Re: Is it possible to bridge three NIC on a Windows 2000 Server

From: Herb Martin (news_at_LearnQuick.com)
Date: 02/13/05 

Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:16:32 -0600

"Ankit Shah" <AnkitShah@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:48BB9E6E-5A4F-4DB2-98ED-06CB38F3DAFA@microsoft.com...
> If I have three NIC cards on my Windows 2000 Server, how do I bridge them
> together so when they are working as one unit?

Click each on in the Network Connections dialog box
(hold shift after the first).

With all selected, create a new bridge.

Do NOT plug these in to the same broadcast domain
(same segment.) You are bridging between different
segments.

> I heard that by having
> multiple NIC cards on the server, you can Send Data and Retrieve data much
> faster because it has three NIC cards to send and recieve data from.

Don't hold your breath on that one.

What you REALLY need is a "teaming NIC driver" to make
the work in tandem -- without interferring with each other.

Even then, it probably will not give you exciting increases
in speed.

> Is this
> true. For example i have thirty workstations at my office and one server.
If
> thirty users are sending and recieving data from the server wouldn't it be
> faster to have more PCI NIC cards installed on your Server?
>
> If my statement is true then can some show me how to bridge three NIC
cards
> on my windows 2000 server.I am not sure if you bridging is the right
> terminalolgy but hopefully with my example from above you can help me out
> here. If that is not the case there has to be something to make the server
> send data much faster then upgrading memory and CPU. 

-- 
Herb Martin
>
> Ankit Shah

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