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

[James Hawtin]

On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:08:06PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> 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?
> 

Personally I use an Atom computer with an ION chipset as a router on a stick
using a trunked interface to the vlans on a switch, you can get ION boards
with a 16 way PCIE so you could add a 1/2/4 port ethernet card if you wanted
more physical interfaces. This gives me more than enough bandwidth.

James
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