Re: Telling an app to use a particular NIC

In news:edEszmNvGHA.5056@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Zyggy <jasonthetek@xxxxxxxxx> stated, which I commented on below:
I did just that. I assigned the IPs for the crossover NICs as a
different subnet and still although the client consistently uses the
"crossover" path to tranfer files, once that path was cut off,
Windows automatically uses the "switch" path to transfer data and
resumes to do so even after the crossover path was reinstated. Only a
restart of either the client or server would the transfer carried out
with the crossover path.
It occurs to me with the absence of a way to tell the app to use one
path or the other, the solution is to assign the VLAN to the switch
path. VLAN routers are not expensive at this point, so it looks like
that is how I should do things if I want to do this project.

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Let's start another project that uses similar concepts.

Let's discuss about how to use trunking to merge the bandwidth of
multiple NICs. Imagine I have a lot of data to transfer to another
PC. What if I could install 3 gigabit NICs on both PCs and use all
three cards to tranfer the data at the same time in a load balancing
mode. This way, I would have 3 gigabit per seconds of b/w. I have
also been looking for a program that would do this in Windows. The
trunking technology has been used in Dell servers for a long time as
I recall. It uses Dell's proprietary software that is only available
if I buy the entire server from them. Isn't there a publically
available software that does this?

Why not just use NIC Teaming?


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