Another probably more complicated way is to use a USB hub, multiport USB card or the ports built into
your PC with USB ethernet devices.
USB 1 has a 12 Mbit bandwidth though. And you won't be able to use all of that in practice either. USB 2 is a lot higher, several hundred mbits, but again you will probably find it hard to completely saturate it.
USB drivers also tend to be nasty and flaky in my experience... Should get better in time though.
Now a motherboard with several gigabit connections in the southbridge, or perhaps even multiple PCI Express interfaces... Now you would be talking about something cheap that could knock even a top end CISCO sideways...!
Some of these new Asus P4 boards look extremely close now.
P.S. Doesn't look that hot, but no one mentioned the "open brick" yet as a possibility
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