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Difference between Managed & Unmanaged Switches
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| benlkj 2001-11-17, 1:14 am |
| Hi Guys,
Please advice me on the difference between a Managed & Unmanaged Switch. Thanks  | |
| dmonnig 2001-11-17, 1:42 pm |
| I believe what your tring to figure out has to do with the 3 modes a switch can be in. The 3 modes are:server, client, and transparent. Client mode would get its info from the server yet I think you will still need to define the individual ports as belonging to Vlan's. This would qualify as a unmanaged switch I assume.
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| darthfeces 2001-11-17, 2:08 pm |
| nah,
you've gone way beyond
simply a managed switch is one that can be configured.
and an unmanaged switch is simply one that builds
a mac address table and forwards or filter frames
with no management capability or configurable
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| strikeattack 2001-11-17, 7:53 pm |
| Darthfeces is correct. Unmanaged switches have no user interface, or at the most, a very simple one that displays statistics. It does not allow you any type of management or configuration. They are usually attributed to low-end switches designed for non-corporate workgroup models. | |
| vr2zjw 2001-11-18, 1:29 am |
| I will classify those switches support SNMP & remote telnet as managed switches. And you can have all those extra like web brower, RMON agent, etc depend on vendor implementation. | |
| benlkj 2001-11-26, 10:59 am |
| Thanks for the info. |
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