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HugoTeatoday at 3:24 PM1 replyview on HN

I suppose if you manage to get OpenWRT or something onto your switch you could use it as a router.


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wtallistoday at 3:58 PM

That's theoretically possible but a bad idea for a managed switch, because they seldom have enough CPU performance or IO between the CPU and switch silicon to provide respectable routing performance. For an unmanaged switch, it's more likely that whatever CPU core is present (if any) doesn't have enough resources to run a real network stack.