> I just upgraded my Umax S900 with all lots of bells and whistles and I > got it running Jaguar OS X Server. The only piece of hardware which I > didn't upgrade is the stock 10 BaseT ethernet card. > > I'm new to the world of servers and I have seen servers with multiple > ethernet cards. My newbie question is: what could I do with additional > Ethernet cards in my server??
the big question is what kind of connection does your network have? if you have a cable modem, then you won't ever max out your 10BT doing transfers over the cable. if you have some sort of a LAN setup where you do file transfers between computers, then two computers each with a 100BT card would communicate much faster then 10BT. another consideration is that with a ultra-upgraded six-slot-mac, most of the computer hardware is going through the PCI bus. i'm not sure if the stock card is connected to the PCI bus or not, but it does free up a PCI slot. as for multiple network cards, the main benefit of this is with high bandwith connections. each card is supposed to connect to a separate jack in the wall so that each card is getting it's own separate connection. in a home network it's sort of pointless, since there is only one connection to the outside world and it isn't high bandwith. the pci-bus might become saturated with that kind of setup too (hdd transfers, video, multiple network all going). -charles -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
