Easy way to tell if a switch is managed?

[chetmaster12]

So I am a college student looking to buy a switch. I'm looking at a lot of switches on eBay, but most people don't bother to say much useful information about the product. I do NOT want a managed switch. Here's the question: Do all managed switches have management ports of some kind on them? Like serial ports?

In particular I'm looking at this:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-22R0804-22R4916-NO-RAILS-16-Port-1gb-Gigabit-Ethernet-Switch-JUGS16TA1G-2107-/201481012330?hash=item2ee934446a:g:rskAAOSwT6pV2PBj

I know it's old, but I don't need anything fancy.

 

[jsmithepa]

Not all have a dedicated management port.

There is no one at-a-glance way to know, GOOGLE PRODUCT# SPEC | PDF.

 

[kanewolf]

Not ALL managed switches have a serial or console port. The Netgear GS108T doesn't and it is a managed switch. I see you asked this question a month ago and got the answer of "managed" . I don't see evidence of this through any searches I do. I am more likely to say unmanaged. A managed switch isn't a bad thing. Just usually more expensive than an unmanaged.

 

[jsmithepa]

If am not mistaken of having replied to the same thread, did mention I would not buy anything that I can't get hold of a manual, specially IBM, they tend to do their own funky thing.

 

[kanewolf]

If am not mistaken of having replied to the same thread, did mention I would not buy anything that I can't get hold of a manual, specially IBM, they tend to do their own funky thing.

You DID "taw a puddy-tat" ... I mean answer this question. That is what I mentioned in my post.

 

[chetmaster12]

Considering that I see no evidence that it is managed, and some evidence that it is unmanaged (It's cheap, IBM doesn't list it as managed), and it's only like 35 bucks, I'll give it a go. Worst case is that it's totally unusable and I'm out 35 bucks.


Sorry for the double post