I waslooking at a commercial firewall recently and i noticed it has a built a wan port, a dmz port and then a built in switch which it considers the lan port, i was wondering if there is a "switch card" or a pci card with multiple ethernet ports that could be iused as a switch,much the same way that the multiple ports in a sokris can be bridged, however they would be a real switch not just just ethernet ports bridged together and would provide petter performance.
the firewall i was looking at was a sonicwall TZ190 -- -Lawrence