Is it possible to bridge three NIC on a Windows 2000 Server

From: Ankit Shah (AnkitShah_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/13/05 

Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:41:01 -0800

If I have three NIC cards on my Windows 2000 Server, how do I bridge them
together so when they are working as one unit? I heard that by having
multiple NIC cards on the server, you can Send Data and Retrieve data much
faster because it has three NIC cards to send and recieve data from. Is this
true. For example i have thirty workstations at my office and one server. If
thirty users are sending and recieving data from the server wouldn't it be
faster to have more PCI NIC cards installed on your Server?

If my statement is true then can some show me how to bridge three NIC cards
on my windows 2000 server.I am not sure if you bridging is the right
terminalolgy but hopefully with my example from above you can help me out
here. If that is not the case there has to be something to make the server
send data much faster then upgrading memory and CPU.

Ankit Shah

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