Reply To: OCU C)NP A Week 02 Lesson 04 Discussion
A router acts as a bridge between two or more networks such as a WAN like the Internet and a LAN such as an office or home network. A switch essentially allows you to take a single network port from a device and divide it into multiple ports allowing you to connect many more devices into a network. There are managed and unmanaged or “dumb” switches managed switches can perform some routing support such as VLANS and can be managed remotely over the network whereas unmanaged switches have no such features.
