Yes, you can. But instead of running 10 cables from the original office unit (1st segment), why not just run 1 or 2 (1 as spare) on the 1st segment and just configure the port as a trunk port.
It should be something like this: orig ofc swicth ---trunk----> middle L2 switch -----access----> device 1 ... -----access----> device 10 Best regards, Vino ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:20:35 -0800 (PST) From: plug bert <[email protected]> Subject: [plug] how to extend ethernet cheaply To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi peeps, Can one use a layer 2 switch to extend ethernet over 100 feet? Ganito kasi: we are planning to get a new office unit, and from the looks of it the cabling will definitely be more than 100 feet. We plan to install around 10 cables in all. Can we just break up each cable, each representing a different subnet, then use a multiport switch, set up a layer 2 VLAN with two ports for each subnet, then connect the two segments to those ports? tia
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