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the WAN link is 10Mb so a 100Mb hub should be able to cope...I'll give that a try and let you know. :)
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the WAN link is 10Mb so a 100Mb hub should be able to cope...I'll give that a try and let you know. :)

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That seems to work for monitoring....but it's not going to work for traffic shaping. <br />
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pierky - Thanks I'll chuck you some points in a bit but I'd like to leave things open to see if anyone can find that sneaky nic card.
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That seems to work for monitoring....but it's not going to work for traffic shaping.

pierky - Thanks I'll chuck you some points in a bit but I'd like to leave things open to see if anyone can find that sneaky nic card.

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Oh yes, of course... You did not talk about traffic shaping in the original post, so I posted my comment! :-)
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Oh yes, of course... You did not talk about traffic shaping in the original post, so I posted my comment! :-)

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Hi,<br />
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I'm setting up a PC to do in-line packet sniffing on the network to monitor outbound bandwidth on the WAN link. The machine works fine as is; an XP box with 2 nics bridged (i.e. an IN and OUT port) and I can sniff all the traffic on it's way to the firewall to monitor bandwidth.<br />
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The problem is that when the PC is off or rebooting the XP software bridge isn't active so everyone looses internet connectivity. What I need is a dual port NIC that will failover to a bypass/bridge when there's no power (or better still no OS).<br />
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Preferably cheap and PCI, but could manage with PCI-X at a push.<br />
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Many thanks!<br />
R.
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Hi,

I'm setting up a PC to do in-line packet sniffing on the network to monitor outbound bandwidth on the WAN link. The machine works fine as is; an XP box with 2 nics bridged (i.e. an IN and OUT port) and I can sniff all the traffic on it's way to the firewall to monitor bandwidth.

The problem is that when the PC is off or rebooting the XP software bridge isn't active so everyone looses internet connectivity. What I need is a dual port NIC that will failover to a bypass/bridge when there's no power (or better still no OS).

Preferably cheap and PCI, but could manage with PCI-X at a push.

Many thanks!
R.

Dual Port Nic with Failover Bypass

Networking hardware includes the physical devices facilitating the use of a computer network. Typically, networking hardware includes gateways, routers, network bridges, modems, wireless access points, networking cables, line drivers, switches, hubs, and repeaters. But it also includes hybrid network devices such as multilayer switches, protocol converters, bridge routers, proxy servers, firewalls, network address translators, multiplexers, network interface controllers, wireless network interface controllers, ISDN terminal adapters and other related hardware.