On 2011-06-12, Christopher R. Hertel <c...@ubiqx.mn.org> wrote: > There are four-port (actually 5-port) switches on PCI cards out there. > > These cards provide 10/100/1000 switching between all five ports, but one of > the ports is wired internally to the PCI bus and makes the device look like > a regular Ethernet card. > > I have no idea if any such card would work in a Soekris system. I just know > they're out there. > > The only advantage of using such a card with a Soekris, however, is that you > could get one with all five interfaces running at 1Gbps. As has been > discussed on this list previously, that might not actually be a good thing.
The other advantage of these cards is that typically they're vlan- capable and, in some OS, can be programmed by the machine. > The cheaper and probably better solution would be to get an inexpensive > five-port GigE switch and connect the first port to the Soekris. There are cheap vlan-capable small switches (there's a routerboard one, for example, with some interesting features like vlan tag translation and rate limiting) but typically these must be configured by a web interface. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
