On 2008/01/13 16:16, Lord Sporkton wrote: > 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,
yes, e.g. http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=A-3500-WB&cat=NET they use a single-chip 5-port switch like RTL8305SC. they used to be all over ebay sold as quad ethernet cards, but I can't seem to find them there any more. I'm not sure, it might be necessary to port freebsd's rlswitch mii driver to make them work though. the chip also supports vlans (configured by programming the eeprom and soft-resetting as per http://realtek.info/pdf/rtl8305sc.pdf).
