On Sat 11 Apr at 12:34 Alan Frayer (1:137/212) wrote to Arthur Marsh:
AM>Would there be much risk involved in adding a no-name 
AM>NE2000 clone to a NW
  >3.12 server, for the purpose of isolating some traffic 
  >from the main LAN segment?
 AF> The big risk is in the reliability of the NIC, but if you 
 AF> can live with that, you should be okay. The NE-2000 is a 
 AF> 16-bit card, so you won't have great speed through 
 AF> there, but the server can use it.
 AF> If the server is a busy, production server, adding a NIC 
 AF> will turn it into a router, which adds to the 
 AF> processor's work, and may slow down the server. You may 
 AF> benefit from separating the traffic, though, so it may 
 AF> not be so bad.
Right... the NW 3.12 machine is already a router running MPR 3.0 with 2 NIC's 
and an Eicon Packetblaster WAN card so I'm already familiar with the 
multi-NIC and routing issues.
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