LinuxCNC Mesa card and network

If I modify the machine and will have two Ethernet Interfaces, can I connect both Ethernet interfaces in the same switch ? ie one for the mesa card and one for local network ?

The Mesa card requires a dedicated point to point ethernet connection so the real time performance is not affected by network latency.  Its not a generic network device to install on your network. To also connect to the internet you must use a seperate NIC or wifi connection.

The documentation for th  hm2_eth driver tell syou how to set a fixed IP addres for the NIC on the PC. Asssuming the ip Address of the mesa card is 10.10.10.10, use 10.10.10.1 at the PC end. 
linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/man/man9/hm2_eth.9.html

Ok it's very clear now !
So If I add an interface, I will be able to load a file from a file server using the second interface.
Best regards

Thierry Vorms

Vorms wrote:

So If I add an interface, I will be able to load a file from a file server using the second interface.

Yes.