[ale] Do I need a patch cable?

[Trey Sizemore]

On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 19:11, Brian Chase wrote:
> sell the Netgear on Ebay or give it to a friend.
> 
> Smoothwall takes it's place entirely, then all you need is patch the 
> green interface to 10/100 switch and fan out to your clients and/or 
> Wireless Access Points.
> 
> Red interface goes straight to your cable/dsl modem
> 
So, I do need a switch?  Or with just another desktop machine, can I
just use the cable that's currently going from the desktop to the router
to now go to the Smoothwall box instead?

Thanks.

-- 
Cheers,
Trey
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