PCI-X Gigabit for G5s

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Dumb question…

Why have an extra PCI-X Gigabit card option on the G5 when Gigabit is built-in? What does one gain by having two Gigabit connections? And is the PCI-X version faster?
 
Another use of dual nics is for failover incase one switch you're connected to fails. Yet another use for dual nics is for backups. Many large providers have a dedicated backup network so that all network traffic while doing file backups on your network are over a seperate network so it doesn't effect bandwidth on the main link. Yet another reason is to bond the two connections using etherchannel and you can get a 2G network link instead of a 1G link. I can go on and on and on with options, we have at my office atleast 15 different reasons in use for needing multiple nic's.

Brian
 
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