5.7 Providing External Access to an Internally installed Card

Even if the card is already installed internally in the Host-PC, it is perfectly possible to use an Ethernet cable plugged into X801 to access the card from the Other-PC

From the the Other-PC's point of view, the card appears to be installed Externally or in Peer-To-Peer mode.

Note
Although it is technically possible to use either IPv6 or IPv4 for a Peer-To-Peer connection between the card and the Other-PC , we do not recommend using IPv4 in this situation, since it requires very careful manual assignment of suitable addresses to avoid APIPA address-collision on the card's eth0 and eth1 interfaces.

With the card internally installed in the Host-PC, it may not be convenient or desirable to connect an additional Ethernet cable between the Other-PC and X801 on the card.

It this case, you can access the card from the Other-PC by using one of the methods described here:

• 5.7.1 External Access to an Internally installed Card using IPv4

• 5.7.2 External Access to an Internally installed Card using IPv6