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. ________________________________ 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