I finally moved a 1000Base-T network card from my dual PIII-500 to my Disks Box containing my SX6000. I now have a 1000Base-T and a 100Base-T network cards in both my main workstation and in my Disks Box.
In order to force traffic from the workstation (192.168.0.4) to/from the Disks Box (192.168.0.7) to use the 1000Base-T cards, I had to add a route to my routing table on both machines. On my main workstation, I typed:
I tested this route by copying a 5GB file from the Disks Box to the main workstation while monitoring the data rate on the 1000Base-T card. I had a sustained throughput of about 22MB/sec, proving me the data was now flowing through the 1000Base-T cards (a 100Base-T card can't sustain this data rate). However this was not the end of the story...
Just to make sure everything was all right, I tried to surf the web. It still worked but it was slower and the navigation from page to page wasn't as smooth as before.
I tried to retreive my mail but Outlook kept on telling me that my mail server was unreachable. From another PC, I tried to ping my mail server: It was up. I tried to ping it from my main workstation: It couldn't resolve the name of my mail server. I then decided to create two new routes to my DNS servers and a new one to my mail server. It solved the problem but still I think there is a better way to do it. I don't think that simply adding a route from one computer to another can pertube the communication between the computer and the internet. If you have any suggestion please let me know!
Another weird side-effect is that I can't ping or tracert from my main workstation. And radiocan't get the news!
Bizarely I do not observe this from my Disks Box. Tomorrow I'll reboot my workstation and try other solutions.
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