Joe wrote: > [...] > I'd have thought that hardwired hubs are long gone, that all devices > with multiple Ethernet ports are switches and therefore software-based. > Indeed, many routers can be configured as VLANs.
Hubs pretty much are. Not entirely sure where you're thinking switches are "software-based" though. Switching is typically done in ASICs these days ... > > I had a different problem recently, trying to work out which of a few > high-bandwidth 802.11ac routers could be configured in pairs as wireless > point-to-point links, which also uses the term 'bridging', and no, they > can't all do it. But documentation is usually very poor for the > lesser-used functions of most things. 'Bridging' is also used to mean > wireless repeating, which is a different thing again. Honestly, I'd never trust an "all-in-one" consumer router for that (even if it "supports" it on the box). Pair of purpose-built radios (e.g. Ubiquiti AirMAX) would probably do best for that situation. -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281
