Daisy Chain Network

[NimxD]

Hello there!

I had an idea last night about connecting my Nintendo Switch or my PS3 to my network with my MacPro mid2012

and since my last post Ive got an upgrade to my network to 1GB FTH but sadly I only have 10/100MB Switchers and I'm a bit worried about all of them using the same Chanel (I have a lot of consoles and computers using WiFi or some kind of wireless comm) 

because my MacPro having 2 1GB networking I thought that might work but I got some kind of internet connection but not really worked for some reason

it said: self IP something

but on the system settings it didn't even say that I have a internet connection but it let me see who is online and log into my Nintendo EShop

 

and also can I Daisy Chain to another computer? not a console but an computer

 

 

some info of my Computer:

MacPro 5,1

2 x 3.33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon

64 GB 1066 MHz DDR3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4095 MB

 

LAN to USB3: unbrand 

 

 

Thank for help :)

[Bad5ector]

You're asking if you can use your spare NIC in your MacPro as a bridge to your FTH internet?

 

You can but it will only be limited to one other computer / console. And you'll either need to setup the mac with a DHCP server and router software.  The APIPA address your seeing  (169.*.*.*) is a self assigned ip that won't do you any good and is what a system will use when it can't find a DHCP server or an address hasn't been manually assigned. 

 

Another option that might work is to bridge the two NICs together.  That should allow for the second NIC to act as an extension of your ISPs router. But again this will only be good for one other system. 

 

In the end,  it is probably easier to pick up a cheap 1000/100/10mbs switch and use that to connect to your ISPs router. 

[Lurick]

6 minutes ago, Bad5ector said:

In the end,  it is probably easier to pick up a cheap 1000/100/10mbs switch and use that to connect to your ISPs router. 

Agree 100% with this for the easiest option.

[paddy-stone]

Personally, I'd upgrade all my switches to Gigabit, it's been around for a long while now, and IMO it'd be a bit silly to have Gigabit internet, but only 10/100 networking. You can get 8 port Gigabit switches for around £15 or so... and they should probably last a while before you'd need to upgrade again.

[NimxD]

2 hours ago, Bad5ector said:

You're asking if you can use your spare NIC in your MacPro as a bridge to your FTH internet?

 

You can but it will only be limited to one other computer / console. And you'll either need to setup the mac with a DHCP server and router software.  The APIPA address your seeing  (169.*.*.*) is a self assigned ip that won't do you any good and is what a system will use when it can't find a DHCP server or an address hasn't been manually assigned. 

 

Another option that might work is to bridge the two NICs together.  That should allow for the second NIC to act as an extension of your ISPs router. But again this will only be good for one other system. 

 

In the end,  it is probably easier to pick up a cheap 1000/100/10mbs switch and use that to connect to your ISPs router. 

so I will need some kind of "server software" to do that?

can you name some of them?

and also: its all on board NIC but can an NIC on PCIEx will do the job?

 

and one last Question

if its  "self assigned" how its let me into the EShop and so? some weird bug or something else?

1 hour ago, paddy-stone said:

Personally, I'd upgrade all my switches to Gigabit, it's been around for a long while now, and IMO it'd be a bit silly to have Gigabit internet, but only 10/100 networking. You can get 8 port Gigabit switches for around £15 or so... and they should probably last a while before you'd need to upgrade again.

Yeah but I have around 10 of them and that all stoke up

and most of them are 16 ports.

[Bad5ector]

44 minutes ago, NimxD said:

something else?

You're probably still on wifi on that device.