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: [email protected] on behalf of Michael Butash Sent: Sat 7/7/2012 2:38 AM To: [email protected] 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
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