2006-07-18, 01:40 PM
I'd like to set up a network in which I have a web server hooked up to the internet, and then a bunch of other machines on an "internal" Gigabit network which do not have access to the internet (I'm trying to set up a database cluster). So it goes something like this:
cable modem
|
router
|
web server
|
Gb switch
|
DB1 ...
Unfortunately, the switch doesn't seem to work unless I also hook it up to the router (the ethernet card in DB1 doesn't initialize). I have the feeling I'm fundamentally not grokking something here - do I need a router instead of a switch? All networking hardware is NetGear (GA311 cards, ProSafe VPN firewall, GS608 switch), and I'm using RedHat FC5. Any thoughts?
One more note - I haven't hooked the web server to the switch yet. I thought I'd try to get the switch working first. Would this make a difference?
Daniel