On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 09:50:41AM -0700, Paul wrote:
> Thanks for your response. But have no choice than to loop from one
> switch to another or if you can suggest another way I can achieve the
> connectivity.
No, he means a closed loop, e.g.
+--------+
| switch |
+-+---+--+
|___|
or ___________
| |
+------+-+ +-+------+
| switch | | switch |
+------+-+ +-+------+
|___________|
These are not good configurations (although if all your switches have
Spanning Tree enabled it should work, better not to risk it; if you are
using hubs rather than switches then it definitely will not work)
> I have 45 workstation, I have three (4) HP/cisco 10BaseT 16port and
> one HP (1) fastethernet 10/100 switch on the network.
I'd suggest you keep the HP fastethernet switch as the centre of your
n etwork, and plug all the hubs into that. Then you have a tree structure
with no loops:
switch_____
/ | \ \ \
/ | \ servers
hub hub hub
||| ||| |||
PCs PCs PCs
In the above diagram, the switch means that packets from PCs on hub1 to the
server do not appear on hub2 or hub3. So you effectively have 30Mbps of
total network bandwidth available - all three hub networks can run at 10Mbps
simultaneously.
Regards,
Brian.
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