Are these switches open to any vulnerabilities like some tp-link routers and modems that has those banned in the US? My understanding is that they are not exposed to outside web/internet and they are only used within the internal network?
There’s no software on switches, unlike routers. It is all hardware.
It isn’t even a good deal. Amazon has them for sale a dollar cheaper.
Is this a managed switch? If so, does it have any type of software/interface to tag vlans?
I think this is the managed switch which is ~$20 right now on Amazon.
The “Smart Managed” switches from TP-Link aren’t like a full managed switch, but do have some extra features. I’ve got a couple of the 24 port ones here at my office and they’ve been great.
This is from the specs info for this 5 port switch on the TP-Link web site:
Would it be good enough to isolate a device from the main network, allowing only certain ports open like printer services?
This one only support L2 features.. so you don’t get any inter-vlan routing. You’d have to have something else managing that part. Or if you got a switch with L3 functionality, that would be able to handle the routing part as well.