Those are very different things. A switch is not just a bunch of NICs put together. Probably it’s some asic with specialized logic to inspect and route layer 2 packets. A nic has way more functionality than that in it since it needs to integrate with the os and serialize and deserialize from the physical layer.
Those are very different things. A switch is not just a bunch of NICs put together. Probably it’s some asic with specialized logic to inspect and route layer 2 packets. A nic has way more functionality than that in it since it needs to integrate with the os and serialize and deserialize from the physical layer.