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Originally Posted by McG
just to add to the esteemed posters above, when you understand that your router is what protects you from nasties out there, and your switch helps to hand out internal addresses, then your solution becomes much clearer. hopefully, your existing router is recent.
depending upon the number of ports, buy the gigabit switch. i bought this one at memory express and i have nothing but good things to say about it. you plug in, it works: http://www.memoryexpress.com/Product...30393(ME).aspx |
Not that it really matters in this case but a typical switch doesn't have anything to do with handing out internal IP addresses. To put it simply, a switch just moves traffic back and forth to items that it is connected to. If the item doesn't already have an IP address from another source (DHCP or statically set) a switch won't actually work.