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  • I can step in if needed/wanted. Some caveats and important info:

    1. I’m lazy and will remain on sh.itjust.works, if that’s alright. Seems to work fine with the other communities I mod.

    2. I tend to moderate based on following the spirit of the community more than absolute adherence to the rules as written. Substance is more of important that syntax to me.

    3. I’m in UTC+2

    4. My favorite dinosaur is triceratops.

    5. I moderate a few other communities, and I’ve moderated a lot of other stuff (forums, et.al.) in the past.







  • Unmanaged switches don’t care about VLAN tags, spanning trees, management interfaces, or LACP.

    Managed switches care about at least some of those features and therefore will have a management interface to configure them, as well as firmware supporting them.

    A dumb/unmanaged switch will look up the MAC address of the intended recipient and map that to a port before forwarding a packet to a particular port. A managed switch might do a lot more.

    If you don’t need a managed switch, don’t buy one. If you’re OK with everything on one port being able to communicate with anything on another port, and connectivity is your only concern, you’re probably going to be fine with an unmanaged switch.

    Source: I manage (amongst other things) managed switches for a living.