I have found many posts about 2 nic, 1 Lan, 1 wan, 1 pc, but the end-use never seems clear and how to set up is also never clear it seems. I truly believe I have a unique question here…
SET-UP: 3 pc’s each with vista ultimate. Each has two nics, one 10/100 the other 10/100/1000. We’ll call them Mnic and Gnic, respectively. There are 2 WANs: dsl and cable. Mnic connects to linksys WRT54G router with dsl, Gnic connects to linksys WRT310N router with cable WAN.
PC1 is used as a web server, a file server, and for large bandwidth usage.
PC2 is used for streaming media from PC1 and low-bandwidth apps such as gaming and VoIP.
PC3 is used for streaming media from PC1 and low-bandwidth apps such as gaming and VoIP.
THE QUESTION:
Is it possible to make applications, such as Windows Media Player, or World of Warcraft, use a specific nic? WMP would use Gnic, as Gnic is connected to the network with the media server. WOW and Skype would use Mnic, as Mnic is on the network that does not have bandwidth hogging apps on it.
Important to note is that PC1 running certain apps and a web server will hog all available bandwidth on Gnic’s WAN connection, despite several efforts to implement QoS solutions including DD-WRT, application layer, and bandwidth throttling built-in to the applications causing the hogging.
Would like to avoid having to buy a Dual-WAN router for two reasons: 1: cost, and 2:research tells me that the bandwidth hog would simply eat up both WAN connections anyway. Main reason is cost.
Seems like an interesting question to me, I hope I have a fun one for somebody here 🙂
