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you only have 1 MAC addy, but you can have more than 1 ip.
For example, an ISP may give you 2 (or more ips), but bound it to one nic card (using MAC). So, lets say you have 2 ips. you set one up as your apache, while the other as the rest of the network. Then using NAT, you configure all connections to one ip to be forwarded to your apache server, while all connections to the other ip to be forwarded to your internal network. Your isp does not complain because they are only assigning ips to one computer (as far as they can tell - 1 nic is being used).
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