Dual Ethernet ports on the MOBO and NDI ?
Yes, you can.
You should also be able to use a plain ethernet cable with connectors pre-applied, gigabit cards are supposed to automatically detect the order of the wires inside the cable and they'll just work.
The two network cards connected together won't receive IP addresses automatically, so you'll have to assign them IPs manually... preferrably from a private IP class different than the one your router gives automatically.
The private ip classes are :
- 10.0. 0.0/8 IP addresses: 10.0. 0.0 – 10.255. 255.255.
- 172.16. 0.0/12 IP addresses: 172.16. 0.0 – 172.31. 255.255.
- 192.168. 0.0/16 IP addresses: 192.168. 0.0 – 192.168. 255.255.
So if your router gives your pc 192.168.1.2 as IP, you could set 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 to the network cards connected together with the subnet mask 255.255.255.0
Also, keep in mind that your router also needs to have a 2.5g ethernet port to achieve 2.5g, otherwise you'll be limited to 1gbps.
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