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Unmanageable Switch -

Unmanageable Switches are just working on layer 2 switching.

these switches are basically counted under dumb switch catagory.

By using these kinds of switches we dont have to do anything, not even IP addresses.

These switches are Plug n Play devices.

Managable Switches -

Managable switches comes under smart switch category.

These switches performs on layer2 as well as layer3 switching.

By using manageable switches we can perform or manage following services over the network infrastructure -

DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)

VLAN (Virtual LAN)

Layer3 Routing

etc..

These switches are not Plug N Play devices, we need to manage means we need to introduce them to the network first before using it.

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