As Corne stated, some applications work badly when you have two
(or more) NIC connected to the same network, because you have a loop
in your network topology. Here are some alternatives but they all
depend on what you've got.
1. What NIC and switch transfer rate have you got? If they're at
100Mbps, it might be interesting to use 1000Mbps as they aren't that
expensive nowadays.
2. Are you using half duplex? Well, normally people would use full
duplex, but who knows, you might use that option for some reason.
3. Your machine has two NIC. Is it a server class machine? What OS
are you using? All these questions are because you might be able to
setup port trunking (also called teaming, port aggregation, LAG - Link
Aggregation Group, etc, etc). Some driver could do this at driver
level. Some OS could do it at higher level. But you also need to
make sure that your switch is able to support this. The standard is
called IEEE 802.3ad.
HTH
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:36 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have a server that is consistently busy with network activity, polling
> other machines for information almost continuously. I have tried to VNC or
> remote into the machine but the interface is incredibly slow and
> intolerable.
>
> I was wondering if it were possible to configure the second ethernet port
> as a "remote only" port, where only VNC or remote desktop traffic is passed
> through?
>
> If anyone has any idea how to accomplish this, I would be appreciative.
>
> Brian Dieckman
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