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 <tt>iw dev</tt> will display devices
-<tt>swconfig</tt> is an OpenWRT binary for switch configuration. The routers have a switch that can be used to recognized VLANs. You 5 different ethernet devices,
+= Switch Configuration =
-but it's not that there are 5 different ethernet interfaces, but it's instead
-a switch that uses VLANS. You can configure traffic coming in on a specific
-VLAN so that it can be recognized (VLAN tagged) and routed as needed.
-You can have multiple layer 2 ethernet networks on the same wire.
+[https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/techref/swconfig swconfig] is an OpenWRT binary for switch configuration. The routers have a switch that can be used to recognized [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_LAN Virtual LAN (VLAN)]. You 5 different Ethernet devices,
+but it's not that there are 5 different Ethernet interfaces, but instead the router is a switch that uses VLANs. You can configure traffic coming in on a specific VLAN so that it can be recognized (VLAN tagged) and routed as needed. You can have multiple layer 2 Ethernet networks on the same wire.