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Re: Re:Need secure firewall for SOHO


From: Barrie Dempster <barrie () reboot-robot net>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:55:37 +0000

On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 10:48 +0000, Ghaith Nasrawi wrote:
why doesn't he connect a switch to one of the Linksys LAN ethernet
ports? Thus, you get more available ports to be used!

The ports in question aren't RJ45's. OP's problem was in the number of
TCP/UDP ports that can be configured for port forwarding. The Router has
a web management interface which only allows a limited number of ports
to be forwarded into the LAN. Too many port types :-P


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