Dual lan question?

[ingeborgdot]

I have not purchased a motherboard with dual lan before but was wondering how it actually works. Can I assign one lan to go to the internet and the other one to go to our local network? I have that now with some of my computers but we actually just ordered an add on nic and did it that way. The board I'm talking about is the GIGABYTE GA-AX370-GAMING 5. Thanks.

 

[akaikaia]

Yes, each nic can have whatever address range you prefer

 

[Ratman6161]

You don't need to purchase a motherboard that has dual NIC's built in. In fact, if you try you are probably going to really limit your available choices. Its a trivial effort to stick a cheap NIC in a PCIe slot.

Question: What do you hope to gain by this?