Hi Christophe, On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 18:47, Christophe Simon wrote: > Hi, > > For one week, I have the responsability to administrate a LAN in a society > where there's at least 5 swithes and 1 hub connected together in chain. I > heard that plugging too many hubs or swithes in chain can cause network > stability problems. > > Is that right, and what can I do. I have been adviced to put a bridge > station between twoo switches in the chain, but I didn't succeeded in > configuring the twoo interfaces (twoo RTL 8139 cards) on the same network > adress (for exemple 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2 cards in the same box...) > and making a bridge. I compiled my kernel with the BRIDGE option, and I put > sysct.net.link.bridge_cfg=rl0:0,rl1:0 in sysctl.conf. > > Im I on the rigt way, and if not so on, what ca I do ? > > Thanks a lot ! > >
Not sure for others, but I seem to recall that 3COM Office Desktop switches actually do specify the max number of units you can daisy-chain together. Not sure about bridging though.., sorry. Stcey > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Messenger : discutez en direct avec vos amis ! > http://www.msn.fr/msger/default.asp > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Stacey Roberts B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science Web: www.vickiandstacey.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
