[Gllug] Buying a switch (a sort of repost/recap on an old thread)

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Richard Jones wrote:
> Sorry for bringing this one up again, but at the end of last year I
> asked about buying a reasonable gig-E switch for my home.  Since then
> I've moved in and run Cat5e cabling to most rooms.
>
> I'd like to find a switch that can perform routing / firewalling
> between VLANs, without requiring a separate firewall.  None of the
> switches I've looked at seem like they can do this.  I could set up a
> cheap PC to do this, but that requires another box with 2 or 3
> ethernet ports, power and so on, so it's a good deal less efficient
> than just having a feature within the switch to set up firewalls.
> More space, more power, more noise ...
>
> Is this something that any switches can do?
>
> Rich.
>
>   

You won't see that sort of thing (working at its full rated speed!)
until you get up to layer 3 or 4 devices and they may cost you more than
a dedicated PC would when a quad core's what, £300 these days? I'd
welcome a reasonably priced 8/12 port full bandwidth gigabit switch with
basic routing smarts though so if you do happen across one and it's
fairly cheap please let me know :)

Roger.

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