From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alfie Viechweg Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:49:16 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] the "cisco vs. Linux" thread Message-Id: <40F3CC3C.7050602@syncompute.net> List-Id: References: <20040708193300.GA30890@mabeys.dsl.aros.net> In-Reply-To: <20040708193300.GA30890@mabeys.dsl.aros.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org I haven't tried routerboard as yet. Seem like one of the most cost effective way to add more ports to your own switch/router/brouter device. Another probably more complicated way is to use a USB hub, multiport USB card or the ports built into your PC with USB ethernet devices. The USB ethernet devices a quite expensive compared to plain ethernet - even gigabit - but if you use an embeded board or a mico atx with a shotage of slots this a solution for getting up to a staggering 128 ethernet ports - in theory. Wireless USB would make things even more interesting in this arena. _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/