Two ethernet adapters = troubleshooting

We are developning an application in LabVIEW 6.02 which controls a Logic Analyzer (HP1670D) via telnet and ftp. The medium between the HP and our PC(NT-4) is a TP- or a coaxial-cable.
In our PC we have two ethernet adapters, one that is talking with the LAN and one that is suppose to talk with the HP throw our LabView-application. However we are not able to use the secondary ethernet-adapter with LabView. It seams like that LabView is not able to handle two ethernet-adapters, some kind of conflict or delay is raised during the communication.
Other applications (i.e ftp-programs) handle the communication with the HP without any problems.
The LabView-application works great against the HP if we only use one ethern
et-adapter.
Do you know how to solve or where to find any solutions to this issue ?
Best regards Joachim Osbeck and Tore Svensson
Ericsson Mircowave Systems Sweden/Mölndal

I'm not sure if I can help, but I can tell you that I use 2 NICs with LabVIEW all of the time and have no problems. We configure the card on the LAN to get its IP from a DHCP server and we specify the IP of the second NIC. We generally use something like 192.168.xxx.xxx and make sure that the subnet (third set of numbers) is different from our LAN. The products that I test have and ethernet connection and I ping and telnet to them. Our configuration is Win NT 4 and LabVIEW 6 and LabVIEW 5.

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Chuck stewart wrote:
> Hello All
>
> some one mailed me a message requiring a problem we had a while ago about
> two Ethernet cards on one PC. Unfortunately I accidentally deleted the
> message before responding to it, so if I post the answer here maybe they
> will see it.
>
> We got two Ethernet cards to work with LabVIEW by giving them different
> address. I.E. Card 1 had address 123.456.FFF.001 and card two had
> 234.567.FFF.001. Card one was co
nnected to the network and card 2 was
> connected to the unit we wanted to test. We think that LabVIEW uses the
> address to determine which card is being used. Anything connected to card 1
> must be on the same domain in order for it to work I.E. 123.456.XXX.XXX
> where X = any hex number from 1 to F )( the same for card 2 ) We didn't
> test this theory, but our system is working and it is the best explanation I
> can come up with.
>
> Chuck Stewart

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