[mythtv-users] Motherboard recommendation

[Raymond Wagner]

On 8/19/2014 10:28 AM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 09:18:16  -0400, you wrote:
 >
 >> On 8/18/2014 5:05 PM, Dan Wilga wrote:
 >>> - At least 3 Ethernet ports, using an Intel chipset
 >>
 >> You're not going to find anything with three ethernet ports.  You
 >> might find something with two ports, and a third dedicated IPMI
 >> port.  The only way you're going to get more than two functional
 >> ports is with a discrete card.  I can understand two, if you want
 >> to use this as a router, but I don't know what value three would
 >> be.
 >
 > I can think of several uses for more ethernet ports.
 >
 > A common router configuration is:
 >
 > Port 1: WAN Port 2: DMZ Port 3: Main protected subnet
 >
 > And often you also want your wireless connection on a separate subnet
 > too.
 >
 > While standard on business networks, having a DMZ for your Internet
 > accessible servers is not so common for home networks.  But there are
 > those of us (like me) who do that - I have been running my own web
 > and SMTP servers since I first got a broadband connection.
 >
 > Another use is to have a separate subnet for the kids, with full
 > protections applied to it (eg forcing all web traffic through a proxy
 > server).

Once you start segregating your internal network, it's really in your 
best interest to start segregating your hardware.  Have something 
dedicated to just managing the network, and leave all your servers, 
files servers, and MythTV out of it.  Trying to lump too much together 
is nothing but a source of headaches.
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