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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

Trey Sizemore wrote:

> I currently have a Netgear 4-port router to which I connect my machines
> to.  CAT5 cable from NIC of each machine straight to router.  I have an
> old P200 that I've placed a couple of NICs end and want to use as a
> firewall with Smoothwall.
> 
> My question is, if I run my CAT5 cable to the Smoothwall box, can I just
> use another CAT-5 cable (like the one going into the Netgear router) to
> go to the other NIC in the Smootwall box or do I need something like a
> patch cable?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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