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willay |
posted on 11th Jun 12 at 20:39 |
the good old CAM table Chris ;) | |
Chris |
posted on 11th Jun 12 at 20:16 |
It would work just make the sure the CAM table doesnt fill up. | |
Nismo |
posted on 11th Jun 12 at 10:38 |
Or just create a fully meshed network, configuration brain freeze. | |
willay |
posted on 11th Jun 12 at 09:07 |
yeah defo, but you could have a series setup and waste 4 ports per switch connecting to each switch either side. But I don't know why you would do that and not just do a star configuration so you have a 'core' and access switches. | |
Dom |
posted on 11th Jun 12 at 09:02 |
Am i right in thinking a star config utilises two ports between each switch whereas a series setup requires only a single port? | |
willay |
posted on 11th Jun 12 at 09:00 |
zing motherfucker zing | |
Dom |
posted on 11th Jun 12 at 08:57 |
Have a look at STP (Spanning Tree Protocol). IIRC, essentially (one of) the switches will block a port preventing a loopback but will enable it if there is path failure on the primary connection. | |
willay |
posted on 11th Jun 12 at 08:55 |
Most switches have a type of Spanning Tree enabled (please specify switch model) and this is used to detect loops. When a loop is detected it puts one of the ports in a blocking state and the other port into a forwarding state, to ensure there are no loops. | |
John |
posted on 11th Jun 12 at 08:44 |
That port on the switches will be configured specifically for redundancy, in a normal unmanaged switch that would cause problems. | |
Bart |
posted on 11th Jun 12 at 08:22 |
Im just looking at an ethernet drawing which shows 5 ethernet swtiches in series and the last ethernet switch then joins back up with the first. |