Achilles Posted July 24, 2018 Posted July 24, 2018 I have an Ethernet switch and will be connecting it to one of the LAN ports on the XR500. This switch is a gigabit switch which holds roughly 4/5 devices. When looking at the device manager on the XR500, will it detect that a switch it being used and display all the devices individually or will it simply be one connection as there are some devices I will want to manage more personally.
e38BimmerFN Posted July 24, 2018 Posted July 24, 2018 Depends if your switch is a managed switch or NON managed. Non managed switches will not be seen by any router as they do not report an IP address. These are recommended for ease of use and quick connections.
Achilles Posted July 24, 2018 Author Posted July 24, 2018 I believe it's unmanaged. So what, the switch won't even come up in the XR500 device manager or will it report back multiple IPs from the different devices?
e38BimmerFN Posted July 24, 2018 Posted July 24, 2018 The switch will not be reported as non managed switches don't have IP addresses. Just works as a pass thru for connected devices. So the XR will see devices thats detected thru the switch.
Achilles Posted July 24, 2018 Author Posted July 24, 2018 That's sounds like exactly what I want, so long as I can see and manage them it should be fine. Thanks for the help!
e38BimmerFN Posted July 24, 2018 Posted July 24, 2018 You'll be fine. It's how non-managed switches work. I have several on my network. Enjoy.
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted July 24, 2018 Administrators Posted July 24, 2018 I would just reiterate what e38 has said above!
Fathomless Posted July 24, 2018 Posted July 24, 2018 I have an Ethernet switch and will be connecting it to one of the LAN ports on the XR500. This switch is a gigabit switch which holds roughly 4/5 devices. When looking at the device manager on the XR500, will it detect that a switch it being used and display all the devices individually or will it simply be one connection as there are some devices I will want to manage more personally. Good choice it should help you with Ethernet stability, since you would offload switching function to another device.
Achilles Posted July 25, 2018 Author Posted July 25, 2018 Should I be able to see the IP's for each device connected to the switch? Right now I can see the devices (offline) but there is no IP present.
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted July 25, 2018 Administrators Posted July 25, 2018 Should I be able to see the IP's for each device connected to the switch? Right now I can see the devices (offline) but there is no IP present. Should be able to, if data is passing through. If not we're looking into a similar issue so will check
e38BimmerFN Posted July 25, 2018 Posted July 25, 2018 What Fraser said. Both IP and the device should be seen on the router if connected thru a non managed switch.
Achilles Posted July 27, 2018 Author Posted July 27, 2018 Yup it's working perfectly, IP updated once the devices came online. They do seem to disappear at times when the device(s) are offline but from what I can tell it's working fine and allowed me to managed my LAN setups hassle free.
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