Cable Modem, 2 LAN cards

[SitNgrin]

I have a system running XP Pro with 2 LAN cards in it. One is connected to an external cable modem, the other, is going into a Micrsoft Base Station ( MN100 ) router.

The cable modem works great on the hose machine, right up until I enable the other LAN card. Once I enable the LAN card for the router, the cable modem no longer has access to to the internet. Seemingly, when I disable DHCP on the router ( which I thought would work ), the network the router is on can no longer communicate.

Any help whatsoever on this would be greatly appreciated!!

 

[jpm121]

Did you turn on bridging for the network cards?

 

[SitNgrin]

I did bridge them, but came up with the same issue of the card going to the router killing the internet connection. When I unbridged the Lan card going to the cable modem, all worked fine again. Have I mentioned I hate microsoft?

 

[SitNgrin]

I tried it in bridged and unbridged mode. It seems that when one card is active, it disable the features of the other. I tried turning off DHCP, but that didn't seem to help either.

 

[Prinny]

Can you try hooking up the router between the modem and the host computer and then disable the second NIC? Hook up your other computers to the router and run your network through the router and not through the second NIC. Just a thought that might work for you. 2 NIC's in the PC often causes connection problems through a cable modem.

 

[SitNgrin]

I will give that a go, thanks!