Fred Wright wrote:

>>Do I still need seperate WAN and LAN  NICs, or can they be VLANs on the 
>>same NIC? -- The goal is simply to free up a few ports on my switch 
>>(Which has both 802.1q and port-based VLAN support).
>>    
>>
>I believe that's possible, but it defeats the purpose of the firewall to
>connect LAN and WAN to the same physical interface.
>  
>
Not if VLANs were used to seperate the WAN traffic from the LAN traffic.

It's probably more trouble then it's worth to free up one switch port, 
at least until I run out of ports.

-- 
Just sit through this NRA meeting Marge, and if  you still
don't think guns are great then we'll argue some more.