On Tuesday 21 June 2005 10:46, William Hooper wrote: > Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 June 2005 09:37, William Hooper wrote: > >> Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > >>> 2. M1 > >>> will act as firewall and router. This is because 1000Mbps capable > >>> routers are still too expensive for me. > >> > >> Unless you have a really fast internet connection (faster than 100 > >> Mbps) > >> it won't matter if the router isn't 1000 Mbps. > > > > Well the internet is only cable modem, so yes it wont matter for the WAN. > > But > > I'd like to have gigabyte for the LAN. The routers that have this is > > still more expensive than just switches. > > You are talking about buying both anyway. Just use the Gigabit switch to > plug everything into it. Your router's 100Mb interface will then only be > used for internet traffic. Yes, I just thought of that. Then I won't actually have to set up the Linux router. I don't know why I was thinking backward this morning. Thanks. RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Dept. Physics and Astronomy University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
