Improve this answer. MadHatter MadHatter Fibre is cheaper than copper anyway. I hadn't counted, but if that's true it's useful to know; even though the switch ports are often more so, and there's the multiplicity of possible terminators to contend with, for long runs you may well have a very good argument.
John Gardeniers John Gardeniers The Overflow Blog. Podcast The first ten years of our programming lives. Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Linked 0. Related Hot Network Questions. Server Fault works best with JavaScript enabled. Accept all cookies Customize settings. I found that I could not even tell myself why a switch has many ports while the router only has a few.
And I can not tell myself when to use a multilayer switch or router to do routing. Thank you sdavids Try to search on the internet, and it seems like nobody has the same question. What is the difference between the port on the router and the one on a switch??? And what's the difference between the ethernet modules on a router?
Feel lost Believe me in this world of telecommunications there are always going to be questions you need the answers to. So ask away - it's the only you'll learn. As others have wrote it's really about network roles. A switch will have a number of ports which can be as low as or as high as 48 or even higher if you stack switches together. The function of a switch is to provide "switching" in a local network i. This LAN could be the floor in an office building for example.
It connects all users on that floor together! So if we take this example one step further, you could have one LAN one floor 1 call it sales department and another LAN on floor 2 call it accounting. But what happens if a user wants to communicate with someone on the other floor? This is where routers come in as they provide the connectivity to allow communication from one floor to another floor - known as inter-vlan routing. This is why routers have less ports than a switch as they are providing, at layer 3, communication outside of the LAN where switches only provide connectivity inside that LAN.
Hi there. No question is dumb. If you don't know the answer ask. As such they need a large number of ports. For example an office may have 20 workers they could be all connected on the same network to a single switch with 24 ports. A router operates at layer 3 and connects different networks together. So in above example one office may be engineering with 20 people connected to one switch through layer 2 ethernet ports.
Another office, sales may have 15 people connected to layer 2 ethernet ports on a second switch. I'm not sure what tools are available, but things I always check when creating a port channel, again Cisco terms , are to verify the bundle is created and all ports are bundled. Check each port in the bundle and see how traffic is load balancing in the bundle.
I use counters on each port and tools like ping. Have you determined that bandwidth is an issue to the server? Twenty seems like a low number of connections. Is this access, SQL, or some other database on the accounting box? But i wonder where your servers are in the picture. The only bottleneck that you could have in this setup is the switching power of your TOR switch. I do not know the netgear stuff, but that one might be critical.
Also, is it fault tolerant enough? TOR switch is a FOS, bought for its capacity, but mostly for its dual power supplies so yes, it's redundant, with the two power supplies fed from separate UPS's on separate circuits, which are on separate feeds from the main and the emergency generator. As far as technical ability, I'm comfortable with any of this.
Managed switches can be used to create VLANs and may serve as aggregators in very complex networks. Generally, these switches cost more than unmanaged switches. However, they offer unique benefits, including remote access for administrators and support for Gigabit Ethernet. Keyboard, video, and mouse switches reduce the number of cables needed to operate multiple computers or servers.
With a KVM switch , a user can control several different computers or servers with just one keyboard, monitor, and mouse. Many models are programmable, allowing the user to create hotkeys that switch between each connected computer or server. Also called an intelligent switch, a smart switch is essentially a managed switch with limited options.
This type of switch allows certain customizations. A user may be able to configure the duplex modes or use the smart switch to create a small and simple VLAN.
A power over Ethernet switch distributes power along with data to connected devices.
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