Doesn't the cable modem only route packets from specific MAC addrs? I thought I read that the last time I thought about getting a cable modem. In that case wouldn't the WebTV traffic be forced to go through the firewall before going out? (The hub would spray it at both, but the cable modem would drop anything that didn't have the firewalls MAC?) Plus I don't know anything about WebTVs and what sort of network configuration you can do on them. "Troy.A Johnson" wrote: > > It is the "behind the firewall" part that kicks that in the pants. > > >>> jeffr at odeon.net 09/19/01 02:37PM >>> > > Is there any reason you couldn't just use a cheap unmanaged 4-port 10/100 > switch (about $30 on pricewatch)? > > Jeff -- Jesse Erdmann Engineer Secure Computing Corp.