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Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 18/12/2023 (lemmy.nz)
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Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

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[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Replying to myself now...

Eg this thing - i'd be very surprised if it isn't actually a Hub, rather than a switch: https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/SWHMES11050/Mercusys-MS105G-5-Port-Gigabit-Desktop-Switch

And PBTech have a variety of others: https://www.pbtech.co.nz/category/networking/switches

I've seen some people run the Netgear / TPLink stuff - but they're not things i'd be confident in recommending. Cheap though - just steer clear of anything that's described as an "Unmanaged switch", its probably not much of a switch - ie it'll be single VLAN only, no trunking etc. Like basically a hub, but maybe with separate collision domain & its own MAC table.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

just steer clear of anything that’s described as an “Unmanaged switch”, its probably not much of a switch - ie it’ll be single VLAN only, no trunking etc. Like basically a hub, but maybe with separate collision domain & its own MAC table.

Haha ok, the one I linked is a no then. I have no idea what half those words mean so it's a bit intimidating thinking about having to set it up!

[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

If you're confident enough to setup stuff like Frigate then working through the basic management stuff on something like the EdgeSwitch wouldn't be a stretch. The GUI is very friendly, it even puts cables in for the ports that have something plugged in: