Dual Ethernet Connections

[colinshedden]

I'm wondering what uses people have found for the two Gigabit connections on the n2100. I'm on'y using one at the moment but I thought there might be some clever people out there who have found some ingenious ways of using them.

I suppose these could be theoretical as well a implemented....

Regards

Colin

[holmes4]

Unless you have a lot of traffic on your local network, it's probably of little use. But I envision connecting a cable from the second GigE jack on my main PC to the second connector on the N2100 so that I have a "dedicated" connection that bypasses my local network traffic. For me, this can't possibly make any difference so I haven't bothered, but dual paths can help with load balancing.

[ktulaman]

I have tested the IP-sharing option in firmware 2.1.01. The file transfer rates were degraded when using IP-sharing.

ktula.com/2006/09/11/thecus-n2100-21014-beta-firmware-raid0-or-jbod/