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Not really, though a cheap switch that doesn't support igmp snooping would probably resort to flooding all ports vs dropping. I am speaking about typical unicast traffic. In general any time the switch doesn't know what specific port the...

I can't speak for OP but my guess is good old fashion $$. I have a new be AP I am testing that needs bt poe and my otherwise perfectly good poe switch can't provide enough power. I spent $55 on a 95watt injector vs a couple grand on a new 48port...

Anytime someone else says hub I swear out loud.

BE was just ratified and BN is years away.

LOL there are many legitimate reason for a switch to forward traffic to all ports/all ports in a vlan. There are also many not so legitimate reason to do so. Also, technically per standard, there is no such thing as a gigabit hub.

There's more to switches than forwarding traffic. Sure they might apparently handle line rate but are they flooding ports doing it? Many do. I've got a tp link switch placed inline between an ONT and a certain ISP's gateway specifically because...

So I installed the R650's last night, and apart from the short stint where one wouldn't grab an IP address and I spent way more time troubleshooting than I care to admit just to find I forgot to hit "apply" after changing the DHCP static IP...

A perfect summation. That's what you get with custom firmware on a Qualcomm Atheros chipset vs a consumer AP with Broadcom. I've said it before: You can get by with consumer/home switches, maybe even a consumer router if your needs are minimal...

You might can "get by" with it but you shouldn't. All consumer networking gear is utter garbage and it is because it's garbage we are stuck with stupid standards. Anyone in the security realm will tell you wired and wireless should **NOT** be...

Who cares? You paid for the bandwidth, and if you use it then that's your right. If your ISP can't handle it then it's up to them to upgrade their infrastructure. Just a reminder, the US is far behind countries like South Korea. STFU and...

As I said there are a very few exceptions. I'll point that it get's worse before it gets better, essentially what you're saying, is also often used and generally untrue. I honestly prefer a government that is deadlocked and can accomplish little...

We're from the government and we're here to help. Most of you should know well enough that with very few exceptions everything a bureaucracy as big and convoluted as the US government gets involved with gets worse not better.

Generally speaking on most firewalling devices once a packet is dropped the firewall is done with it. There is no additional processing. You generally start by denying traffic to known malicious destinations and/or geographies then drop specific...

The same reason we have DoT and its bastard should be killed cousin DoH ... ISPs behaving badly. The assholes started with answering nxdomain with ads and went downhill from there. The entire community should have raised hell when that started...

The whole HTTPS everywhere thing is getting worse. Encrypted client hello (ECH) is going to make web filtering a nightmare. The plus side is it will either force businesses to finally break down and do TLS inspection or push everyone to fully...

Years ago, never mind exactly how many, I was the product manager for for a large US company where we OEMed Check Point Firewall-1. Back then VPN was an extra-cost item,and it was a hot seller. But back then it was all user to corporate server...

Please tell me your boxes were not bright green or depend on an add in accelerator card. :) Going to add that a VM still lives on my ESXi box named SR-XP-Test. The SR standing for secure remote.

Smart questions that most people don't really ask, and you've guessed the answer--all they do is relocate where you are to where the vpn endpoint is. This can be useful in certain situations, but it makes more sense to just use a VPN just like...

Yeah, VPNs as offered/advertised by outfits like Nord and that Norton product provide basically nothing for security. Common application protocols such as HTTPS and encrypted DNS (DoT, DoH) cover you there. If some hotspot or whatever seems so...

to be clear BLS said hotspot not website. As far as a sketchy or more to point malicious website goes, visiting would be enough. How long you stay matters not. That is generally the side effect of websites detecting an address used by...