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  • Churchill@slrpnk.nettoHome Networking@selfhosted.forum•WTF is up with switches?English
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    1 year ago

    a switch is like a tube station for local traffic, essentially an extension lead

    You’re right, a basic unmanaged switch is basically that!

    Managed switch is a smarter switch. For example, creating VLANs or doing port trunking.

    These are generally configured on the switch GUI as you mentioned.

    Think of them as a computer with dedicated software to control how the network interfaces behaves.