<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Olwe Bottorff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:galanolwe@yahoo.com">galanolwe@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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.<br></blockquote><div><br>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. <br>
<br>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. <br>
<br>-Rob<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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From: Justin Kremer <<a href="mailto:justin.kremer@gmail.com">justin.kremer@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Advice on using Linux box as router/firewall/file manager?<br>
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On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Olwe Bottorff <<a href="mailto:galanolwe@yahoo.com">galanolwe@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> The router has 4 ports and the new Linux box would be five. Can I get a cheap switch/hub to extend the router?<br>
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Yes. Also consider the speed of network connections. Gig-e is very<br>
cheap these days, but that router is 10/100. If you get a gig-e<br>
switch, and the file server also has that, you may want to plug<br>
everything into that switch rather than directly into the router.<br>
- Justin<br>
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