On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Henrique Pantarotto wrote:
> Router with 5 ethernet ports? Does it exist?
>
> Thanks!
>
> >You can do it with a router, just tell it not to allow any traffic between
> >the 5 segments. Any router worth it's salt can do it.
Heavens, yes. Would you like a router with 96 Ethernet ports? All it
takes is money. Five ports should be no problem. It's not going to be
one of those dinky Netgear/Ramp/Netopia/etc home dialout routers, though.
Talk to your local cisco or Bay/Nortel dealer. But a Linux box with a
4-port Ethernet card and a regular NIC would be cheaper and probably have
more than enough power to handle such a small network. If they think they
might want to add networks in the near future, they might want to skip the
1-port NIC and buy two 4-port cards instead.
(I had the opposite problem -- I was used to cisco AGS+ boxes with half a
dozen LANs, a T1, and a couple of 56k lines on them, and it took me a few
moments to really understand that there are cases when a network device
with only two cables running to it would need to be a router. :-)
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