I have a company who has a 2811 with the 4-port internal switch card (HWIC-4ESW). They're idea was to use this, as well as the 2 routed interfaces all on the same VLAN / subnet. Or at least 1 of the routed interfaces. Is this even possible? I have the 4 switch ports all in VLAN 100 as a test as well as a IP address for hosts to send packets to, but am not able to pull the other 2 interfaces into this. They wanted to put 6 hosts on this router but I don't think it's possible.... Should I tell them to stop being cheap and buy a switch?
This 4 port thing seems like a complete waste unless you need to convert them all to routed ports. But I didn't buy it.
Thanks, Joey