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Dual uplink router/switch
Name: adamr Date: February 10, 2002 at 18:31:22 Pacific
Comment:
in an earlier post by someone else a suggestion to his problem was to get a dual input/uplink router/switch. does this herdware exist? if so who makes them and where would you find them? this would be a nice piece of hardware to have... thanks
Name: Nea Date: February 12, 2002 at 23:25:02 Pacific
Reply:
By dual uplink you mean a router who has more then one port capable of uplinking to another switch/hub/etc? If that is what you mean there are lots of them. All Netgear routers for example have automatic uplink ports on them. As an example, I have a RT314 by netgear. It is a cable/DSL router w/ 4 ports. I can plug in a hub/switch to any of the 4 ports and it will automatically uplink. All of Netgears currently offered routers have this feature. I believe that LinkSys routers are the same. Not too sure about D-Link!!
Summary: in an earlier post by someone else a suggestion to his problem was to get a dual input/uplink router/switch. what i mean by this is for the switch to accept 2 cable modems and have twice the bandwidth...
Summary: "Routers" like your netgear are many devices in one. They route (transfer packets between networks), they have firewalls (regulate traffic), and they also have switches (smart device for interconnect...
Summary: First here is the big problem, if everyone is going to be connected to this router/switch, there is the security issue your forgetting. So to take care of that issue you will need to setup on the swit...
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