Alright, so there's a room with 4 ethernet ports and 5 are needed. I purchased a workgroup switch (Linksys EG005W ver. 3), thinking it would do what I wanted, but upon receiving it, I noticed that there's no "uplink" port. The problem here is if the switch assigns an IP to anything plugged into it, then it may assume such a role for devices on the other side of the switch. That was actually an issue here once, where someone incorrectly hooked up a VPN box that visitors used and it started handing out IP's to other devices on the network (they plugged the device into the internet port and the device port into the wall mount).
I'm not in a position to implement and "see what happens", so I'm thinking I might just RMA it for a router with an uplink port. Any input would be appreciated.
I'm not in a position to implement and "see what happens", so I'm thinking I might just RMA it for a router with an uplink port. Any input would be appreciated.