On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 14:03 -0800, Phil Leigh wrote: > Pat - thanks - both my routers have built-in firewalls - I'll pick up a > switch tomorrow. If I connect the PC and the SB together via the > switch, can I then connect the switch to the router (presumably with a > x-over cable?) so I can get Internet via the router onto the PC?
Make sure that you turn the firewall stuff on. Some ship without it as the default. Some (most?) modern switches are autosensing, and you can just use straight cables. Others require a crossover. I expect that over time, all the stuff will autosense and there will be no more need for crossover cables. (If you have a cross over cable, I strongly recommend you mark it about ten times as being a crossover so that two years from now you don't try to use it as a normal cable and pull all your hair out because it is the wrong kinda cable.) So depending on the setup, you would have internet -> modem/router -> switch -> two or more PC and squeezeboxen or internet -> modem/router - X_Cable-> switch -> two or more PC and squeezeboxen -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
