I knew I’d need 2 NIC’s I was

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January 14, 2011 at 4:27 pm #3003
jrandeck
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    I knew I’d need 2 NIC’s I was wondering whether it would be better to have 2 dedicated to the router or whether the LAN NIC could be shared with other VMs or the host OS.

    When I was considering doing this I intended to set up a hyper-v environment, but a hardware failure on one of our desktops made me scrap plans for that server for the time being.  Basically, the server hardware became my desktop hardware, and I run Windows 7 there so I can play games, though for the amount of time I (don’t) spend doing that, I wonder whether it’s worth it to even have a gaming PC.  I think everything else I do on that PC could be done in a Windows 7 VM.

    Right now I’m running Tomato firmware on an Asus RT-N16 router which does what I need, so this is mostly an academic interest for me at this point.