Fun with switches?

>>1053457
Make some RJ45 keyring and then make them wall mount key holders

Switch off your internet so you never post again

if you paid like $3 for each one, then you've got ten reasonably good project cases, with power jack already in place, a slot in the back for all your connections, and holes for LEDs in the front. you could use them, for example, as a media centers, or game emulators using RasPis.

the shielded metal case also makes them good for audio projects.

>>1053483
Don't know the price sense it was a friend that dumped them on me. They are pretty sturdy.
Anyway you sir gave me a great idea!

Any more suggestions?

>>1053457
Make a loop and crash them

being an innocuous-looking piece of network gear, you can use to stash stuff like your drugs, jewelry, and horse-porn. or hide a camera inside to catch your sister masturbating to Justin Bieber videos.

>>1053457
Stick an Ethernet cord in each, paint them 1-10 and then swing all 10 around above your head like a madman until one flys off. Take bets from your friends and keep a 20% cut.

>>1053457
Black hole routing, and SPANNING TREE and Redundancy Connections and Bandwidth convergence/Link Aggregation .... But I don't that switch supports any of that crap.

>>1053457
OK how about 10 separate collision domains and 1 broadcast domains. At the 2 layers configure all the devices to have the same mac address and at the IP layer give them each the same ip address and run wire shark.

>>1053624
run wire shark in listening mode and grab the packets...lol idk

>>1053457
make a network.

Sell them on craigslist/amazon.

There isn't much you can do with a 5 port switch unless you have an exact project such as NAS, Cameras, etc. Especially ten of them.

I used one buy running cat6 to my shed and adding a small unmanaged 5 port switch to hook cameras up to so I didn't need to have multiple runs.

Appears to be useless. Routers are superior and newer, there is no reason to use an old switch.

>>1053642
Because only a retard would use a router as a switch...

>>1053642
>Routers are superior switches
Apples are superior oranges

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>>1053642

mfw a router lnks two separate networks/subnets and a switch interlinks the same networks or multiple networks within an organization.

Router routes via IP and switch routes via mac... also there are layer 3 switches which use an IP table to route but lack some security features etc.

Bottom line - switches make up the network to interconnect the devices, routers connect those networks together.

>OP doesn't know what to do with dumb shit

>17 posts and no "SHOVE THEM UP YOUR ASS"

what the fuck is wrong with you people

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>>1053713
I'm just trying to have fun with said dumb shit.

>>1053462
Hahahahahahahaha

>>1053642
It's really useful to have a dumb switch for when you need to use Wireshark or similar programs to look at network traffic. A router is smart enough to send packets to only the computer that's supposed to get it so you can't see everything by just plugging a laptop into the same box.

I work for a company that develops industrial equipment controlled through Ethernet and we're really in a bind right now because nobody makes cheap dumb switches anymore. We used to ship one with every product because if there was ever a problem we could just ask the technician on site to use it to show us the network traffic. Now we've only got a few left and only ship them out if there is a problem.

Is there a way to increse security with extra routers and switches?

>>1053979
Actually if you go through more router it will be more difficult to hack into due to the tiny lag.

Hook them up to 10 different nukes