On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 4:27 PM David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
> On 3/7/21 4:02 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 11:01 AM David Christensen wrote: > > > >> On 3/7/21 9:55 AM, Dan Hitt wrote: > >> > >>> I indeed use ethernet-over-usb currently, and > >>> it is fast enough for me. But if i had a second port, it would be a > >> little > >>> less cluttered, so i'd like to do it if it is not too costly and > doesn't > >>> interfere with other goals. :) > >> > >> > >> Will the new computer connect to two Ethernet networks? Why? > >> > >> > > Thanks David for your mail. > > > > The new computer will be connected to 2 ethernet networks (conceivably > > more). > > > > The reason for the two networks is that my modem-router is electrically > > incompatible with one of my computers. That computer freezes or > otherwise > > misbehaves when one of its ethernet ports is on a network which also has > > the modem-router. So i need to have 2 networks because one of my > computers > > is incompatible with my modem-router: one network contains the modem > > router, and one network contains the incompatible computer, and all the > > other hosts are on both networks. > > What a PITA. Have you tried putting a network interface card into the > problematic computer so that you can run one LAN? > Actually, the problematic computer has two ethernet ports on it, but it is a mac, so not so clear how to get a network interface card into it. dan > > Thanks for the rest of your message, and everything else you have written > > in this thread, and thanks also everybody else for all this info which i > am > > trying to digest. > > YW. > > > David > >
