I generally turn one off for my home machine. No driver needs to be loaded for it, thus saving a *little* amount of resources. At work I've used them to bridge subnets, create firewalls, and to bond together for aggregate speed (as has been said). ---- Julian
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Richard Quilhot <[email protected]> wrote: > If you have the right swicth, you can "team" the multiple nics into one > virtual nic with an aggregate speed. > > Rick Q > [email protected] > > > > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Winterlight <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > All my 3 desktop motherboards, both old and new, are high end and all > came > > with multiple Gb NICs. I am not sure why, and have often wondered if > there > > was any use for this other then maybe in a large office with multiple > > networks, or if you wanted to use your PC as gateway to share a > broadband > > connection. Anybody using their multiple NICs for anything useful? Maybe > > some performance trick I am unaware of? > > > > >
