[K12OSN] Recommendations for gigabit switches?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Feb 28 22:38:48 UTC 2012


On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:33 PM, John Oligario <john at oligario.us> wrote:
>
> an unmanaged switch is 'dumb' data in, data out. You have no control of
> ports, of systems not being able to talk with each other, ie ftp mail sql
> etc

Which, about 99% of the time is all a switch should be doing unless
you are trunking VLANS. The down side of the unmanaged variety is
mostly that you can't get any diagnostics or bandwidth statistics from
them.

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  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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