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What's advantage of a switch compared to normal router?
by kapitanjakc 4y ago
What's advantage of a switch compared to normal router?
- AdrianB1 4y agoIt's normally a switch and the question is reversed: what's the advantage of a router compared to a normal switch. Routers extend switching capabilities for extra cost and some performance impact. It's a balance.
- NegativeLatency 4y agoHaving extra Ethernet ports on your single network You could reuse a router but a switch will generally have better perf and theres less to configure or go wrong
- cardosof 4y agoSwitches switch, routers route. More seriously, a switch connects multiple endpoints to form a network, while a router connects switches to create a network of networks, and it routes packets between nodes in the most efficient way so one side of a network can communicate with the other side of another network. At home, some use additional switches to get more ethernet ports.
- dehrmann 4y agoMost consumer routers are switches that with vlans for lan and wan, with a linux machine that does NAT wired to a trunk port.
- xorcist 4y agoThese terms aren't exact. A "layer 3" switch is a router. Mostly the name is an indication of the intended purpose. Switches are nex to the edges of a network.