Can I use test networking in with a looped Dual Port Nic?

[jrxnelson]

I have a dual port network card on a WinXP system.

Each port on the card will have a unique IP address (hardcoded). I can connect a cross-over cable and ping each IP.

Can I run the network tests to generate data running thru the network card?

Thanks!

[David (PassMark)]

This is probably possible.

The netowrk test in V3.2 of BurnInTest makes no attempt to direct traffic out of a particular network card (NIC). It just uses whatever routing table entries are already setup.

From DOS you can see the routing table using the
route print
DOS command. And add new routes using the
route add
command.

So with a bit of careful routing you should be able to direct traffic going to NIC2 via NIC1 and NIC1 via NIC2. We haven't tried this ourselves but see no reason why it wouldn't work. It is not a procedure for the novice however.

It might be easier just to use an external machine rather than trying to test between two NICs on the same machine.

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David
PassMark