On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Olwe Bottorff <galanolwe at yahoo.com> wrote: > Are you saying plug a giga-e switch into a 10/100 router port, then run all > the boxes through the switch? The Linux box is an older machine. It's net > card is definitely not giga-e. > Yes - that's what he's saying. That would enable your machines to talk amongst each other without being throttled by the router's smaller through-put. But as you noted you need giga-e interfaces across the board. Keep in mind the aggregate through-put of a switch is not the sum of its ports multiplied by the bandwidth per port. A gig-e switch with 5-ports will probably only support 2gb total throughput (like the netgear pro-line), if that. On the other hand, 99.999% of home networks probably don't care about that. :) I guess I'm just being pedantic. -Rob > > > > ________________________________ > From: Justin Kremer <justin.kremer at gmail.com> > To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Sent: Fri, July 2, 2010 8:43:33 AM > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Advice on using Linux box as router/firewall/file > manager? > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100702/c74de3cf/attachment.htm