Add a network-interface card
You can add a network-interface card to improve performance or connect the database server to multiple networks.
You might want to improve performance if the network-interface card for the host computer cannot service connection requests satisfactorily.
To support multiple network-interface cards, you must assign each card a unique hostname (network address) in sqlhosts.
For
example, using the same dbservernames shown in Add listen threads, the sqlhosts file
or registry entries shown in the following table cause the database
server to start three listen threads for the same interface/protocol
combination (as did the entries in Add listen threads).
In this case, however, two of the threads are listening to ports on
one interface card (myhost1), and the third thread is listening
to a port on the second interface card (myhost2).
| dbservername | nettype | hostname | service name |
|---|---|---|---|
| soc_ol1 | onsoctcp | myhost1 | port1 |
| soc_ol2 | onsoctcp | myhost1 | port2 |
| soc_ol3 | onsoctcp | myhost2 | port1 |