Linksys HomeLink HPN100, User Manual

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Appendix
Multiple Network Cards
The following information is supplied to you for
reference only.
Linksys does not provide technical support on the
setup or troubleshooing of multiple network cards
or enabling or setup of routing in an operating
system. Please refer to the documentation of your
operating system in order to find out more on how
to setup two network cards in a PC to communi-
cate with each other. The phoneline card can use
either its RJ-45 ethernet connection or RJ-11
phone wire connection at any given time. Both
connections can not be used at the same time.
Connecting to an Existing Network
If you already have an Ethernet network and
would like to add the Phoneline card to this net-
work, you need to use the card’s RJ-45 connector
and connect the card to the existing ethernet net-
work. It is not possible to connect the card via RJ-
11 directly to an existing Ethernet network. This
can be done, but it requires the operating system
to be able to route the packets from an Ethernet
card to the HomeLink card. Two cards have to
coexist in a PC (one Ethernet card and one
HomeLink card). The operating system has to be
able to route packets between network cards, oth-
erwise the two different segments will not com-
municate with each other. Cable modems are
often an exception. See the next page for details
about cable modem sharing.
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