Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub

@fateknollogee said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@DustinB3403 Why are you calling it a "hub"?

Because there is no switching taking place. The devices simply ask for a dhcp address, and go. All switches are hubs, so a basic unmanaged switch.

Switches are not hubs. They are different things. Hubs are a tier 1 device, Switches are a tier 2.

JaredBusch

This post belongs in my WTF thread

brianlittlejohn

@dustinb3403 said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@fateknollogee said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@DustinB3403 Why are you calling it a "hub"?

Because there is no switching taking place. The devices simply ask for a dhcp address, and go. All switches are hubs, so a basic unmanaged switch.

There is always switching taking place on a switch. All switches operate on layer 2. Hubs have no switching and operate at layer 1, so they are two different things.

FATeknollogee

@jaredbusch said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

This post belongs in my WTF thread

Where is the thumbs-up emoji when ya need it!

Dashrender

OK seems like there is some confusion here.

Hubs simply rebroadcast something that comes in on a port onto every other port on the hub

A switch typically operators at Layer 2 - it knows what devices are on each port and only sends traffic to the port that is responsible for the device in question.

But a switch can also have router functions built it, often called a layer 3 switch. These switches have some smarts, enough to route traffic between two or more networks.

I suppose if someone was only ever introduced to the layer 3 style switches, they might assume all switches work this way, and they knew Hubs didn't so...

coliver

@dustinb3403 said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@fateknollogee said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@DustinB3403 Why are you calling it a "hub"?

Because there is no switching taking place. The devices simply ask for a dhcp address, and go. All switches are hubs, so a basic unmanaged switch.

Wtf are you talking about?

Dashrender

@coliver said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@dustinb3403 said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@fateknollogee said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@DustinB3403 Why are you calling it a "hub"?

Because there is no switching taking place. The devices simply ask for a dhcp address, and go. All switches are hubs, so a basic unmanaged switch.

Wtf are you talking about?

My guess - a confusion between switching and routing.

EddieJennings

@dashrender said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@coliver said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@dustinb3403 said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@fateknollogee said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@DustinB3403 Why are you calling it a "hub"?

Because there is no switching taking place. The devices simply ask for a dhcp address, and go. All switches are hubs, so a basic unmanaged switch.

Wtf are you talking about?

My guess - a confusion between switching and routing.

Probably wants a switch, but is calling it a hub, not realizing that a hub is a specific thing that sends all traffic out all ports (layer 1).

Dashrender

@eddiejennings said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@dashrender said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@coliver said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@dustinb3403 said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@fateknollogee said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@DustinB3403 Why are you calling it a "hub"?

Because there is no switching taking place. The devices simply ask for a dhcp address, and go. All switches are hubs, so a basic unmanaged switch.

Wtf are you talking about?

My guess - a confusion between switching and routing.

Probably wants a switch, but is calling it a hub, not realizing that a hub is a specific thing that sends all traffic out all ports (layer 1).

In this case, either would probably work, but hubs are limited to 10/100, so if you want Gbit, you'd be hosed

JaredBusch

@dashrender said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@eddiejennings said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@dashrender said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@coliver said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@dustinb3403 said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@fateknollogee said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@DustinB3403 Why are you calling it a "hub"?

Because there is no switching taking place. The devices simply ask for a dhcp address, and go. All switches are hubs, so a basic unmanaged switch.

Wtf are you talking about?

My guess - a confusion between switching and routing.

Probably wants a switch, but is calling it a hub, not realizing that a hub is a specific thing that sends all traffic out all ports (layer 1).

In this case, either would probably work, but hubs are limited to 10/100, so if you want Gbit, you'd be hosted

Just to be a dick, what the fuck does hosted have to do with it?

Dashrender

@jaredbusch said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@dashrender said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@eddiejennings said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@dashrender said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@coliver said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@dustinb3403 said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@fateknollogee said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@DustinB3403 Why are you calling it a "hub"?

Because there is no switching taking place. The devices simply ask for a dhcp address, and go. All switches are hubs, so a basic unmanaged switch.

Wtf are you talking about?

My guess - a confusion between switching and routing.

Probably wants a switch, but is calling it a hub, not realizing that a hub is a specific thing that sends all traffic out all ports (layer 1).

In this case, either would probably work, but hubs are limited to 10/100, so if you want Gbit, you'd be hosted

Just to be a dick, what the fuck does hosted have to do with it?

yup, I deserve that - it was supposed to be hosed...

scottalanmiller

@dashrender said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@eddiejennings said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@dashrender said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@coliver said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@dustinb3403 said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@fateknollogee said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@DustinB3403 Why are you calling it a "hub"?

Because there is no switching taking place. The devices simply ask for a dhcp address, and go. All switches are hubs, so a basic unmanaged switch.

Wtf are you talking about?

My guess - a confusion between switching and routing.

Probably wants a switch, but is calling it a hub, not realizing that a hub is a specific thing that sends all traffic out all ports (layer 1).

In this case, either would probably work, but hubs are limited to 10/100,...

That's true, the GBit standard prohibits hubs.

scottalanmiller

@dashrender said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

But a switch can also have router functions built it, often called a layer 3 switch. These switches have some smarts, enough to route traffic between two or more networks.

THat acutally makes it a multi-port router.

scottalanmiller

@dustinb3403 said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@gjacobse said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

Why would you want a hub over a switch?

I may have something - albeit used and old... but I can look.

You're missing it.

I need a switch to act as a basic hub. It's doing nothing but passing network to a few other devices.

I suppose you could set a switch to broadcast everything to every port. Why would you ever want this, though? What's the goal?