[ale] Do I need a patch cable?

[Brian Chase]

Yes, i would recommend you get a four-port switch for only $15 at Office 
Depot or other local computer discounter.

You could do a crossover cable straight into Smoothwall from your other 
PC, but if you ever forgot about it and replaced it with a normal patch 
cable, you'd be no working again.

Cheers,

BC

Trey Sizemore wrote:

> 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?
>