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Switching Router VS Routing Switch

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shadow

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

Thankyou 🙂
 
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)
 
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.
 
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.
 
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