Dual lan?

[skkler]

So I got a new motherboard recently and it has 2 ethernet ports how would i going about enable dual ethernet? Also what does dual eithernet even do?

[Guest]

Dual ethernet is more for a local server setup, with extra networks in your house. Most likely, one of those LAN ports will be 1 gbit/second. Your internet won't be able to supply that much speed. So for regular people, it's just for the fun. (or when one of the ports gets broken somehow)

 

Just connect your ethernet cable to one of the two ports, and you will be fine. Disable the second port in windows, to prevent anoying message about a LAN cable not attached.

 

Using both ports to your modem, won't double your internet speed!!!

[Oshino Shinobu]

For the majority of people, the only use for it is redundancy, so if one port or cable fails, you still have the other connection. It's fairly rare for that to happen, though. 

 

On most boards, both ports will just be 1000BASE-T (1Gbps), so you don't even get something like 10GbE to a server. You may be able to use load balancing with the two ports, or some form of link aggregation, provided other parts of your network support it (normal consumer networking equipment almost certainly won't support it). 

 

Really, just use one of the ports. If you specifically needed both, you'd probably know what to do already, 

[pwn_intended]

As the others said, in a home network, you wont see much benefit from having 2 Ethernet ports. That being said, one thing you CAN do is set up that computer as a router using PFsense. Once again, this is something quite advanced and only really recommended if you feel like learning a lot about that sort of stuff. Also, that would make your motherboard a router and not a regular computer so I doubt you'd want to do that...

[skkler]

Just now, pwn_intended said:

As the others said, in a home network, you wont see much benefit from having 2 Ethernet ports. That being said, one thing you CAN do is set up that computer as a router using PFsense. Once again, this is something quite advanced and only really recommended if you feel like learning a lot about that sort of stuff. Also, that would make your motherboard a router and not a regular computer so I doubt you'd want to do that...

I do have an extra computer laying around so i might try it

[pwn_intended]

2 minutes ago, skkler said:

I do have an extra computer laying around so i might try it

Well I thoroughly enjoyed setting up a couple of these (one at work, and another for a friends house) but then again I enjoy overclocking and benchmarking my computer more than actually playing games on it sometimes.

https://www.pfsense.org/ is the site and there are TONS of guides on t'internets to help guide you.

GLHF is you choose to go this route.

[System Error Message]

The way it works can very depending on what you want to use. Its not possible on windows but if you use another OS it can help you overcome the limitations of 1Gb/s ethernet.

[Emmien]

48 minutes ago, System Error Message said:

The way it works can very depending on what you want to use. Its not possible on windows but if you use another OS it can help you overcome the limitations of 1Gb/s ethernet.

LACP is possible on Windows.

[System Error Message]

35 minutes ago, Emmien said:

LACP is possible on Windows.

on windows server not on windows vista and above. The only way to do it on windows is if the driver supports it but good luck trying to get it to work. The intel driver that allows for LACP will not install on windows server 2012. Windows network card support is terrible. I have a sun quad port NIC that uses a more recent intel chip and the intel drivers refuse to install. on linux however i have no such issue.