On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Olwe Bottorff <galanolwe at yahoo.com> wrote: > The router has 4 ports and the new Linux box would be five. Can I get a cheap switch/hub to extend the router? Yes. Also consider the speed of network connections. Gig-e is very cheap these days, but that router is 10/100. If you get a gig-e switch, and the file server also has that, you may want to plug everything into that switch rather than directly into the router. - Justin