Is this an apartment complex?
Setup sub-interfaces on the ERL "LAN port" with VLAN 1 and VLAN 10. Tag the internal LAN port from the ERL to your switch with both VLAN 1 and 10. On the switch, any device that needs internet access put on VLAN 1 and any device that needs TV, put on VLAN 10.
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Windows 7 never came on systems with DDR. Any OEM system with Windows 7 came with DDR2/DDR3 memory.
Also, I'm pretty sure that a piece of RAM for a system does not count under the OEM terms...
This not at all legal.
You must have shitty switches or power if you are that concerned about failures. I have Cisco 3550s from 2004 happily purring along with no issues.
Buy two switches, keep one as a cold spare.
LACP can only do 1Gb per stream MAX. The most you could pull with a client behind the firewall would be 1Gb. That said, 2.5 clients could each pull 1Gb before running out of bandwidth.
You do realize Cisco created many of the first iterations of today's standards? Inline Power (POE) being a good example.
They also support "Open Standards" as well.
Your point is moot.
They aren't slow. They can route at 1Gb in most use cases. They do use their own "OS". It's basically a fork of Vyatta that they took and have changed and added features of their own.
They aren't meant for joe-blow home user. They never have been. IMO you shouldn't need to bridge the ports...
I use an ERLite at home and use Zone Based Firewall among other features. Never had an issue. I did have the flash fail, but I put in a new drive and was good to go. I have the first run model which had the known issue. New revisions have since fixed that issue.
Personally I use clean images. The only changes I make to the plain image is injecting offline updates quarterly Any other changes I prefer to do in the task sequence.
I have a 128, and 2x 256GB SSDs for sale as well as two WD Blue 500GB 3.5" drives I might be willing to part with.
I'm from Canada, but with the currency rate it might work with the additional shipping costs.
PM if you're interested.