Re: Firewalll LAN port and switch port

[Nathaniel Hall <nathaniel.d.hall () gmail com>]

mission_mink () yahoo com wrote:

> I need technical assistance, I visited few vendors who deal into firewaal. Few of them say they have 4 switch port and 
> 1 LAN port, but does it make any difference since as per my knowledge goes switch port and LAN port are one and same.
>  
My assumption is that they mean WAN port.  Usually on personal
routers/firewalls and some higher end products they will have a built in
switch that is inside the router/firewall and one connection that is
outside the router/firewall.

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Nathaniel Hall, GSEC GCFW GCIA