Internal router on home network - advantages?
Spurious_Inode wrote about this in another post and it got me thinking.
Currently, my home network has 1 Linux box and 4 Windows machines on it.
I have DSL, a 2-wire Homeportal, with the latest firewall update - it isn't heavy duty by any stretch, but a nice addition.
Past that is a standard HUB.
In watching all network traffic, I rarely see anything strange - the occasional ping sweep, but that's about it.
Is there an advantage in this situation to having an internal router?
i.e.
DSL modem > router > network.
I ask because I can see added security advantages, but I am not confident those extra measures are needed given what I have seen on my simple home network.
Are there other advantages that I am missing to this setup? I would love to hear them - I am all for expanding the capabilities I have now.
Thanks in advance.
.: Aftiel