Actually, Mike brings up a good point - unless your interenet provider is faster than 100Mb/s then the best you can do from the 'net to the entire rest of your inside network is 100Mb/s or less.
so a gig switch connected to your firewall/internet router, which has a 100Mb/s link, is probably fast enough. I assume you want the gigE from machine to machine, so you should budget for a higher-end gigE switch (or router) than for an internet-facing box with multiple gigE. Or at least consider the speeds, and try to get a gigE switch/router that can give full data rate (full duplex) between all ports at once.
Rusty
-----Original Message-----
From:
plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us on behalf of Michael Butash
Sent: Sat 7/7/2012 2:38 AM
To:
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Looking for Router Suggestions
Check out routerboard:
http://routerboard.com/products
I don't know much about them, but the os seems very versatile
Mikrotik routers seem to have a good community about them, just not sure
what features the os provides, but seems very versatile, and mentions
openvpn (I'm thinking endpoint, not hub).
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:RouterOS_features
If you really want a router with 2 interfaces for "outside" and
"inside", you'll have better luck, and just get a gig switch for behind
it. Most "routers" really have just two
(wan=outside,switchports=inside), and just include a small switch
built-in to get the "5 ports".
-mb
---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list -
PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss 
(text/plain)
