multiply ethernet devices crash each other....

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Hi

I have 1x Netgear PCI Ethernet card and I currently have a Marvell onboard Lan card that is installed

I want to have each one operating independantly as two different interfaces.....

However, as soon I i plug in the PCI netgear card, my onboard network adapter stops receiving packets.......

Each different adapter can connect to adsl at separate times but then the other adapter stops functioning..and vice versa

Is there a known compatablilty issues with Windows Xp and 2 ethernet devices?

Thanks
 
I want to use them with RouterOs....I am experimenting with my home lan and want to have my adsl on the one interface and home pc's on the other....

They are on seperate ip ranges

1) Netgear = 192.168.3.1
2) Marvell = 192.168.0.1

EDIT: Tried Marvell as 192.168.3.2 but still no luck

Subnet masks both = 255.255.255.0

I havn't installed any drivers for the netgear because windows XP automatically installed the device... am I missing something
 
Let me get this right, you have one pc, and then you want two network interfaces.
Now, windows chooses one of the network interfaces as the default, and it uses it, ignores the other.

You're complaining about this, saying that you want windows to use both at the same time.
Now ...
What do you want windows to do?
Must it use card 1 for sending data, and card 2 for receiving data?
Must it use card 1 for sending and receiving traffic to local machines, and card 2 for sending traffic to "outside" machines?
Must it simply use both cards at exactly the same time, using some kind of load-balancing algorithm to determine which card does what, and must then cater for the incoming packets arriving on the other card?

Pick one, or present your requirement.

EDIT:

Okay ... so you want to do option number 2. To do that, you must add entries to your machine's routing table, that basically tells windows to route all stuff to ip address x.y.z, x1.y1.z1, x2.y2.z2, x3.y3.z3 through card 1, and all the rest through card 2. Look at the route command.
 
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Hmmm ok that does make a bit more sense but RouterOS still only detects one of the interfaces....i will try the route command now

All I want is for RouterOS to detect both cards....
 
http://www.mikrotik.com/software.html

It is basically a separate operating system that can be installed onto wireless routers or windows XP using virtual PC.....I am using virtual pc to run RouterOS at the same time as winxp...

Are you maybee familiar with smoothwall or IPCOP....I think that it is slightly similar....
 
Hokay .. now I c what you're on about.
I suppose the Virtual PC software is buggering you around, and it is only making one NIC available to the virtual PC, whil assuming that the other NIC is for the host PC.
You got a third Network Card lying around?
 
I do have a third card lying around but not sure if it works...

Do u want me to plug it in quick?
 
Ok i think I found the problem but not solved it.... the old Network cards that I tried ARE NOT supported by RouterOS...so going buy a supported one on monday
 
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