Hello everyone.
Please tell me, where can I find a free Gigabit Ethernet Switch for 5-8 ports?
I don’t see any Gigabit Ethernet Switches on the GNu page Products | RYF .
Please recommend options 
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I have the one from ThinkPenguin; I recommend their team for most products
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Thank you very much for your answer.
The problem is that such a company does not exist as a manufacturer, ThinkPenguin does not produce routers, Gigabit Ethernet Switch, computers, USB adapters, etc.
They resell. Also, I don’t see a separate Gigabit Ethernet Switch field here hardware - h-node.org
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What about: 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch (TPE-8PTGIGSWIT2) | ThinkPenguin.com
or more generally: Networking Gear For GNU / Linux | ThinkPenguin.com
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But maybe you mean that they don’t manufacture the equipment that they sell and therefore you can’t be sure about the nature of any software therein. (I mean maybe ThinkPenguin can get assurances from the manufacturer but ThinkPenguin might just have to trust those assurances. You could contact ThinkPenguin and ask.)
On the other hand, an unmanaged switch typically has invisible firmware - so it becomes philosophical and opaque as to whether it is “libre”. The switch might just have an ASIC and no firmware at all. Or it might not be that way but there is no way to read or write the firmware via the network anyway.
For a managed switch, the question would definitely come up as to whether the firmware is “libre”.
So were you after managed or unmanaged?
Or “libre” might have referred to the hardware itself?
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Thank you for your answer.
I’ve also done a little bit of research on this issue, and when choosing a switch, we, the users, need to choose an unmanaged switch. I will write a few models here so that other users, when looking for the answer to this question, will find it here.
These are examples.
NETGEAR (GS305v3) 5-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch
TP-Link (LS105G) 5-Ports Gigabit Ethernet Switch
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It depends entirely on your requirements. I have mostly managed switches - because that’s what I need. I accept that that means that most of my switches overtly run blackbox software. That is not the ideal world but it is the world in which we live.
My guess is that most home users would be well-served by an unmanaged switch but among the hundreds of makes/models of unmanaged GbE switches, we really have no idea what goes on inside them i.e. blackboxes.
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You might find the following topic from 21 months ago helpful:
some of that information is still relevant to this topic.
long live libre hardware!
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