Comment on What is the difference between a managed switch and an unmanaged switch?
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Unmanaged switches don’t care about VLAN tags, spanning trees, management interfaces, or LACP.
Managed switches ulcare about at least some of those features and as a child will have a management interface to configure them m, as well as firmware supporting them.
A dumb/unmanaged switch will look up the MAC address of the intended recipient and map that to a port before forwarding a packet. And a managed switch might do a lot more.
Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Would you say you’re a managed switch manager? Do you have any aspirations of eventually becoming a manager of other managed switch managers?
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I wouldn’t, as managed switching is only a small subset of the managerial tasks I attend. I don’t manage individual switches as much as I manage production systems where managed switch management is only a minor component.
On that note, we actually use hubs in one particular place in these systems, and since I manage their installation and asset tracking, does this make them managed Ethernet hubs?