Re: Managed Switches vs unmanaged Switches

On 24 Sep 2021, Marco Moock <[email protected]> wrote in
alt.comp.networking.connectivity:

>> I am wondering what are the benefits of a managed switch over
>> unmanned, and what are the benefits of an unmanaged switch over a
>> managed switch. If money was not an issue which one would you use and
>> why.  If you had a network full of unmanaged switches, would you
>> switch to managed switches? or would you leave them as unmanaged
>> switches.
> It depends on what you want to gain.
> Managed switches often have features like enabling or disabling ports, port security, configuring Vlans (and als VLAN-Trunking). Most of them also support Spanning-Tree to avoid loops and get redundancy. If you have a bigger network, you need these features to make it reliable.

+1