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@Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:44:20 -0700
Subject: Re: nic for server
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In , on 08/22/03 
   at 03:14 AM, Davey Brain  said:

>OK, here's a question.  I was at Walmart about 1 hour ago.  They had a 
>10/100 hub for $20 (high) and a Cable/DSL router for $40 (not bad).  They
>had no switches.  I'm running a 3 computer P2P network with all  10/100
>cards, but I only have a 10M hub.  Can a cable/DSL router  be  used as a
>switch in a P2P network?

Sure.  It probably is a switch even though the box does not say so.

I'm currently using a D-Link D-604 router/switch in front of a DSL modem
because the price was right (free) and it works just fine.  The DSL modem
is more than just a modem.  It's got your typical consumer grade
router/firewall and PPPOE support built-in, but it only has a single port. 
After turning off PPPOE in the D-Link, I now have more DHCP servers than I
need along with NAT and so on done by the D-Link. :-)

Steven


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