Two things are happening here. First, both the cable and each port the cable
plugs into have to be capable of 1000baseTX (gigabit over copper) in order
for it to work. Second, you likely aren't seeing much traffic over the
second line because you haven't instructed the OS to bridge those two
connections and treat them as one. Once you do so, then you will receive the
benefits of load balancing (equal traffic on each link) and failover (the
traffic will shunt onto the good link if the other fails). Hope this helps
:)

-----Original Message-----
From: Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Andrew Raaberg
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 11:29 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] mother board with two rj-45 jacks?


yes this is an asus board, and a work station model, the manual and the box
boast of the features that this board is capable of, an L164-SLI WS,
unfourtunately for me, i don't yet understand, technically, how to use any
of these capabilities, or what they do.

  both of the ports are gigabit, they are side by side, just to experiment i
plugged both into a router, that is unconfigured, this router has one line
leading to my cable modem, i am pretty sure the category wires are capable
of a gigabit connection, still according to vista both are running a 100Mbps
connection, but the second has not sent or recieved nearly as many packets
as the 1st.

  one time i plugged one cat 6 into one port from my modem and the other
port i ran a cat5e line to another computer, so the connection was modem to
vista computer to xp home computer, this didnt achieve what i wanted it to
because i dont know how to configure these connections...or even what is
possible,

  operating systems and software compatibilities make things confusing too,
i was hoping that if i plugged things in the os would know what was going
on, but i only wanted that for a quick fix, i would much rather be able to
do this myself,

  if i used a linux distrobution at least i could homogenize my os's for
free...

> wrote:
  The board is an A7N8X-E Deluxe and yes it does have two of those and a
firewire port as well.

The reason I know...I am running one as we speak.

Sam R.

At 09:22 PM 10/16/2007, you wrote:

>My Asus uh, don't remember the model or have the inkling to look, has two,
>one 100MBS, one Gigabit port. Not Firewire nor is it a server board.
>A8NX- E deluxe? Something like that.
>
>Brad Loomis
>San Miguel, CA
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>
> >From: "Andrew Raaberg"
> >>does anyone know anything about why a motherboard has two rj-45
> >>jacks? what are the configuration possebilities i could research?
>
>If you really have two RJ45 jacks then it most probably is a server board.
>
>You sure one of them isn't a little bigger then the other? If so, the
>larger one is a Firewire port, which can also be used as a port to
>port network connection between two computers. This is why XP PRO
>and VISTA will
>install them as an adaptor.
>
>Rode
>The NOSPIN Group
>http://www.freepctech.com/rode/
>
>
>
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> Bob Wright
> Drew Dunn


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