Using another switch or router with TC???

Do you use another ethernet switch or router with an integrated ethernet switch with your TC??? How do you have things setup?
BTW: I'm running out of physical ethernet ports and I need to use Vonage...
R

If you're out of LAN ports then yes, you need a switch. Plug it into your TC and plug other stuff into the switch. Simple.
When buying a switch, remember one of its ports will be occupied by the connection to the TC. For example, if you're using all three TC LAN ports, buying a five port switch results in a net gain of only three ports: one of them is needed for the uplink, and the one you had to unplug from the TC must now be connected to the switch... three remain.
Fortunately they're not expensive.

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Hello,
I am in the process of putting together a small branch office network and I am in need of some design advise. The network will support about 10-15 workstations/phones, 3-4 printers, and 4-5 servers. In addition we will eventually have up to 25-30 remote users connecting to the servers via remote access VPN, and there will also be 2-3 site-to-site IPSec tunnels to reach other branches.
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I guess what I am getting at is that I really don't want to do router-on-a-stick if I have a nice switch backplane to do all of the internal routing. At the same time I obviously need some kind of firewalling done on the router, and since different VLANs have different security requirements the firewalling needs to be fairly granular.
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Thanks for the input.
1. I agree, since I have only three to four printers, they need not be in a separate VLAN. I simply was compartmentalizing VLANs by function when I initially came up with the design.
2. Here's a little more info on the phone situation. The phones are VoIP. The IP PBX is on premise, but they are currently on a completely separate ISP/network. The goal in the future is to converge the data and voice networks and setup PBR/route maps to route voice traffic out the voice ISP and data traffic out the other ISP. This leads up to #3.
3. The reason a router was purchased over a firewall was that ASA's cannot handle routing and dual ISPs very well. PBR is not supported at all on an ASA, and dual ISPs can only be setup in an active/standby state. Also, an ASA Sec+ does not have near the VPN capabilities that the 2911 security does. The ASA Sec+ would support only 25 concurrent IPSec connections while the 2911 security is capable of doing an upwards of 200 IPSec connections.
Your point about moving the SVI's to a firewall to perform filtering between VLANs makes sense, however, wouldn't this be the same thing as creating subinterfaces on a router? In both cases you are moving routing from the switch backplane to the firewall/routing device, which is what I am trying to avoid.

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plainview wrote:
Hi, this has been brought up before on this forum;
http://community.bt.com/t5/BT-Vision/Best-non-BT-Router-for-BT-Vision-Use/td-p/243097
http://community.bt.com/t5/BT-Vision/using-another-router-with-bt-vision/td-p/7742
http://community.bt.com/t5/BT-Vision/Do-I-need-to-use-the-BT-Broadband-modem-with-BT-Vision/td-p/484...
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Galexa wrote:
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