Switching Router VS Routing Switch

[shadow]

What's the difference, someone made a point of that being so, I want to be sure I know what it is.

Thankyou

 

[Xanathar]

Easiest way to view it:

Switching Router has more then just Ethernet Interfaces. (WAN Technologies)

Routing Switches only have ethernet interfaces (maybe FDDI/TR also)

Not scientific, but the easiest way to look at it and be 90% right (some products break the rule, which are realistically both at once)

 

[R0b0tN1k]

Just say either switch or router.

A router manages packets at the protocol layer (layer 3) while switches do it at the MAC layer (layer 2). The average user will never even touch a router, since you really don't need to. Those dinky little broadband "routers" aren't routers at all...they're gateways.

 

[5dollahoe]

robotnik,
up to the last few years you wouldve been right. most true switches are layers 2 (data link) and routers where strictly layer 3 (network). theres a large array of hybrids. xanthar correctly categorized how to tell them apart.