General Questions

Hello,
have used monowall before in an old IBM Netvista with 3x NIC setup and it worked like a charm. Managed to distribute bandwidth evenly, since my wife's sister used all of it previously with P2P 

Ok, now I live on my own  , and have 100/10 Mbps Internet connection (optical fiber network) and naturally Linksys WRT54-GL cannot handle this kind of throughput. I have a miniITX motherboard and a case I wanted to use for monowall setup, but the problem is onboard NIC. It is Realtek and as such not recognized upon setup. Therefore I purchased Intel Pro/1000 PCIe NIC (only one, since MB has only one PCI slot), but dont know how to setup the whole system with only one active NIC. I read somewhere, it should be possible by using VLAN. But I am unfortunately not familiar with this, nor have I managed to found any info regarding this subject on monowall forum/Goggle.

BTW
The switch I plan to use is Dell PowerConnect 2708.

Network consists of (and how I would like connections to be):
- one internet providers switch (Milan)
- possibly monowall plugged into it (static IP)
- Dell PowerConnect 2708 Gigabit managed switch plugged into monowall (into single NIC - into which port?)
- Linksys WRT54-GL plugged into the Dell supplying wireless internet
- one Windows 7 computer with PCIe Intel Pro/1000 NIC connected to Dell
- one Lenovo Ideapad U350 laptop connected to Linksys
- Popcorn Hour A-110 NMT connected to Dell
- HP Color LaserJet CM1312nfi connected to Dell

DHCP will be off and all IPs will be manually configured. Gateway IP - monowall 192.168.1.1 and switch 192.168.2.1

Any help regarding network settings (monowall & switch) would be greatly appreciated!

Kind regards,
yovo

I think a minimum of two physical interfaces is required. Maybe a supported dual port NIC would be a way out for you?