Why use two LAN cards in one lab?

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why use two LAN cards in one lab?

 

[itadakimasu]

what sort of lab? you probably should post more details.

A couple uses I can think of for dual NIC's is to share internet connection, and also to connect to 2 different data networks simultaneously.

I have a system that is on another subnet and we needed to print to it because it has a special kind of printer for checks... added another nic, and attached it to our other subnet. Worked perfect.