two network cards question

[wgoblin]

Hi

I have a following situation and need some help.

I have a router that is 10/100 and i have to machines connected to it. Everything is fine.

But i also have a asus a8nd sli deluxe which has two gigabit lan ports and on my other computer i have 1 10/100 mb card and 1 gb lan card installed which is not used. I also have a laptop with 1gbps lan.

I want to preserve the router connection on both comps because they go to internet through that.

But i do a lot of local traffic like copy and such from one computer to another. And some files are really big. So i thought it would be great to have 1 gbps conn.

I connected two 1gbps cards with crossover and all is fine (ips set and all)

But it seems the comps are just using router connection to transfer files, remote desktop and such(remote desktop unless i use the ip of the conn i set of course)

I would like it that it either uses combined banwidth for transfer or just 1 gbps connection to transfer local files and leave the 100mbps router connection alone...

Can that be done? ANd how? I tried to bridge the connections but im not sure if that is safe and is that the only way to do it.

 

[JackMDS]

Link to: Setting Peer to Peer Giga network.

Link to: Peer to Peer Giga Networks

:sun:

 

[wgoblin]

Thanks for the answer and links.

So as i can gather the trouble of getting a giga switch isnt really worth it...?

Is it really so that i cant get more than 125 mb/sec even on giga connection.

If it was even 200-300 mb/sec it would be great, but if the transfer isnt really that good than whats the use, except the marketing trick?