On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 11:40:31 -0800 Ian Zimmerman <i...@very.loosely.org> wrote:
> On 2020-12-18 21:28, tito via Dng wrote: > > > I love physical connections therefore I prefer NICs over Wifi, so 12 > > of them are not so much (a few clients, a server, pos, couple of > > printers, Nas, cash register, 2 modems...) > > No quarrel with the rest of your post, but I would do this with just > one Ethernet interface on the router and then switches / hubs for > everything else. > Yep, at work I have a 24 port unmanaged switch, but still use some ports on the router for dual Wan (as single Wan could be very unreliable here) and the other ports as a fallback should the switch go belly up (lightning and spikes in Voltage happen also often) at home I need to reduce the number of boxes (have a lot..., like to tinker) so router and switch all in one is a good thing and leaves more place for my wife's books in the shelves ;-) Ciao, Tito _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng