Hi
We have an XServe with Dual Gigabit and it seems that with a seperate IP assigned to each NIC it just works, quite how it works wether it divides I/O operations between the cards or wether it has in for one and out for the other i dont know. It may be something special in the Jaguar Server software, but its not gonna hurt to put the NIC in your G4 and assign it an ip addy is it? So id go for it and see if it helps, if you connect to the mac via its NAME rather than its ip address it should share the bandwidth.
Each NIC is going to handle the IP traffic assigned to it. You can get higher throughput that way if the load is balanced. It depends a lot on the software in question, whether it can spread the load between the two or not.
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Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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