General Questions

Hi all, this is a relatively silly question I'm sure, but I looked all over and couldn't get a conclusive answer.

I was wondering if it is possible to make a 4-port wired router out of an old computer with 4 NICs and m0n0wall?  Would I just bridge (or bind?) all of the NICs together?

Thanks a bunch!
G

Do you mean router or switch?

For my uses, either would be fine.  I guess the whole bridging thing would apply moreso to switches?  I don't really need NAT.

We to answer your question, Mono is a router, It will hand out DHCP address to anything that request's it from the network.  from monowall you would have to connect it to a external switch. that will intern connect to mono. and you can have as many switches as poss.

to answer your question i believe you can do what your trying to achieve by adding the extra 2 nic cards for a total of 4 nic card, but lets not forget that one of those nic's will  be used from the connection from your modem. so leaving you with only 3  cards and you can simply bridge them to your prrimary nic card that you designate as your primary, and then the other 2 will be opti's