What is the difference between a managed and unmanaged switch?
Jul 28, 2009 · Likewise "web-managed" switches are switches which fall in a market niche between unmanaged and managed. For a price much lower than a fully managed switch they provide a web …
How to find the MAC address of the switch I am connected to?
A managed switch (sometimes called a smart switch) will have a MAC address If the switch is a managed switch, and you know its IP address, run the following command in your terminal.
Filtering traffic between ports on an ethernet switch
Feb 22, 2022 · I would like to know if there is a standard way of limiting traffic between ports on a managed Ethernet switch? I have a 7-port Ethernet switch (microchip - KSZ9897), which is a layer 2 …
VLAN traffic not passing through managed switch - Server Fault
Jan 19, 2025 · I upgraded an unmanaged TPLink switch to a managed Linksys LGS328MPC POE switch. Traffic from some wireless clients are tagged by the AP with VLAN 3000. In the diagram, …
VLANs using one managed switch or link router to unmanaged switches?
Nope, at it's heart it's simple advantages/disadvatages of router+unmanaged switches vs only a managed switch and is quite an original question. I did extensive research to try and find an previous …
switch - Servers and clients in two subnets, how to make the traffic go ...
Feb 15, 2025 · The router, clients and servers are connected to a layer-3 managed switch. As far as I know, in such a setup, if a client wants to visit a server, the traffic is forwarded by the router, which …
Is it safe to use a single switch for multiple subnets?
0 You could use one subnet per VLAN to create multiple broadcast domain for multiple ip ranges. And if you want to communication between those virtually separated vlans (ip address ranges) within a …
security - vlans and unmanaged switches - Server Fault
Apr 19, 2021 · 1 For the scenario like this: [managed switch 1, vlan0]- [unmanaged switch]- [unmanaged switch]- [managed switch 2, vlan0], Is it possible to have a vlan defined based on the managed …
Configuring a switch with WAN and LAN - Server Fault
Nov 28, 2017 · Conceptually, think of a managed switch (layer 2 switch) as a layer 2 device with an itty-bitty computer inside it. The switch part moves frames aroumd; the computer is used for …
How are unmanaged network switches a security risk?
Jan 3, 2025 · The unmanaged switches would then be federated the substation level on managed network equipment (a managed switch or router) to gain access to the company main network. I …