Hi Guys,
Please advice me on the difference between a Managed & Unmanaged Switch. Thanks

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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.

Hope this helps.

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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
options.

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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.

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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.

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Thanks for the info.

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