Request for 'Newbie documentation' on how to set up a simple L2 switch

[tscheffl]

Overall I like the documentation for basebox.
However, in the transition between the 'Getting-Started->Basic Networking' and the 'Network-Configuration' part, I still miss a section that picks up old-fashioned network users like me.
When one of these people hears the term 'switch', he/she thinks of a simple MAC-learning switch, like a Cisco 2960, on which all interfaces are active by default and forward traffic. But the basebox config is more oriented to virtual switching in a host VM of a Linux system.
Would it be possible to add a chapter under 'Getting Started', which explains the basic differences in the approach (interfaces disabled, no traffic-forwarding out of the box) and present a minimal example for the configuration of a simple MAC-learning switch? The rest with VLANs, STP is well explained, but I find the conceptual gap quite high for someone who wants to configure and use such a system for the first time and possibly brings a CCNA to the table, but has never done any Linux networking...