A bridge is nothing more than a switch... If you need more ports on a L2, use a switch.. How about some details of what your trying to do exactly. What is this device/thing/whatever your trying to connect to a network? And what are the details of the network you want to connect to. Is wireless involved? I can tell you most of the time - bridging would not be the right solution ;) Unless you are talking about bridging a wireless to wired?? Nobody can help you make a decision or even explain why you would want to do XYZ vs ABC without some details!

Hmm, well if you use Squid/Squidguard to do web filtering I would want to see 2 cores there really, at least. Steve

I imagine you will fine routing at the firewall between the internal subnets. That hardware is probably far in excess of what you need. Steve