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

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Mon Feb 8 12:08:06 UTC 2010


On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:44:41AM +0000, James Hawtin wrote:
> Clearly your firewalling for the interweb will require a machine too
> do that, however your probably always going to have to as I have
> never seen a swich that does NAT for example. Your internet
> connection however does not need gigabit switching power so you can
> use a much lower spec system for that.

Mmm, seems your logic here is right.  So the next question would be
what is a cheap, small, quiet PC that has 2-4 ethernet ports on it?

Rich.

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