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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
It's actually either, a switching hub or a bridging hub
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Hub is a term that refers to a completely separate class of device.
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And if you work in IT and are modding switches to make them manageable I can only assume that trotters independent trading suddenly have moved to having a soho setup
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No, just a H setup. Given it seems you've not read any part of the thread, let me point out he is asking for a consumer switch to use at home. For £50 you can get a second-hand 10/100 Catalyst switch or a gigabit consumer switch with full management capabilities and far better interoperability since open-source firmware doesn't obsess over maintaining their own proprietary junk.
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You buy the proper kit ie Cisco or juniper catalyst/ex series
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And how many of those do you have in your house?
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Oh and bonding is a term that's about five years out of date it's port channel hence the interface name po1 etc
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No, Port Channel is a Cisco specific term for their implementation of bonding. They also have their proprietary HSRP but you don't see everyone going around calling failover HSRP now do you? Not to mention some of their naming conventions are so out of date they're probably older than you are.
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Originally Posted by Uncle Peter
Enterprise type managed switches have also assimilated many of the layer 3 functions associated with olde worlde routers and will support concepts like routing and forwarding between vlans and conversely provide a means of segregation between vlans.
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Indeed, and you can also get switch modules for "olde worlde" routers too... Bt frankly I don't see many sane people tolerating the noise or cost of enterprise type managed switches in their living room.