got a g4 running os x 10.2 that we are toying with as a server.
as we have a spare ethernet card we were wondering if you can have one (ie, the built in ethernet) card doing incoming traffic and the second (in a pci slot) doing the outgoing.
The G4 can pretty much flood any ethernet wire it's given. So the throughput increase will really be from having multiple *bi-directional* ifaces going to a switch that feeds an even fatter pipe.
OTOH, depending on what kind of services you run on the G4, you might find that the services themselves are the bottleneck, not the NICs.
As for configuration, check out IPNetRouterX. It lets you tweak the routes and such. And Peter Sichel, the author of IPNR, is always willing to add features. Might be worth trying IPNR, then joining the Sustworks Talk mailing list.
http://www.sustworks.com/
HTH, - Dan.
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