Simulate multiple LAN's

[ashton.scotland@firstdata.com]

Hello all I am trying to implement multiple LAN's for home labs using a single PC. I was thinking of purchasing a StarTech USB 3.0 to Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter that will enable me to have two additional ethernet NIC cards and from there assign the IP addresses want. My question with this setup is will i be able to open a command prompt to correspond with the new USB NIC interfaces? If so can someone suggest how would this be done.

Thank you.

[Zaaf Aba]

Hi

Unfortunately I haven' used  StarTech USB 3.0 to Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter but their website https://www.startech.com/uk/Networking-IO/usb-network-adapters/USB-3-to-Dual-Port-Gigabit-Ethernet-Adapter-NIC-with-USB-Port~USB32000SPT

suggests

"The dual USB NIC is also ideal for providing dedicated physical network interfaces to virtual machine configurations. Great for IT administrators that require dual-homed or multi-homed host systems."

Based on above, If you are thinking to have two virtual machines running on your host operating system, on vm using one virtual switch configured to one RJ45 Gig Ethernet port and second vm to second, that should be fine.

If your pc has multiple Ethernet card and you open a command prompt and ping or tracert. The packet forwarding will be based on the routing table entries your pc have in the output of netstat -nr.

Regards

Zaaf