Re: OT: Small network with 4 switches
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/02/11 06:48, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: > Hi Sluggers, > > I got 4 un-managed switches, 3 (sw1, sw2, sw3) in the same room for > workstations, and 1 (sw4) in the server room (debian-samba) > Currently I link those 3 switches to the 1 in the server. > Those switches are 4 ports, please do not ask why the company insist of using > them (money talk...) > > Out of curiosity for network-savvy-out-there, would it better if I link sw3 > -> > sw2 -> sw1 -> sw4 > > or, better to leave as my config: sw1 -> sw4, sw2 -> sw4, sw3 -> sw4 > > It just bothering me to know which one is better... Yo, as you said their are unmanaged, so no problems with spanning tree. I assume all ports on all switches have the same nominated transfer rates. Ideal solution would be something with spanning tree and redundant paths but in your situation I would do (as you suggested): /sw1 sw4-sw2 \sw3 and I suggest buying at least 1 spare switch for any case. In this case you've got shortest route to resources at sw4, if it's not possible try to avoid as much as you can sw4sw1sw2sw3 cause in this situation traffic from all machines have to pass sw1, so issues like load, etc and the most important the path is the lontgest one with addition of single point of failure on whole path and this should be avoided (almost at any cost :-) ). As it can cause huge problems if sw1 will die or so. Hopefully that's helped (at least a bit). - -- |_|0|_| | |_|_|0| "Heghlu'Meh QaQ jajVam" | |0|0|0| kuLa - | gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0xC100B4CA -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNVnAJAAoJEOqHloDBALTKojYH/A+rnoc0WlKugBiF8KuO2z/Y sQiOEmK40dNQtfRW0q0NyhuQ/F58MN53pLBEafZvJHKKgUnG+Fo/CtRMJOuMVqf0 Im8Nsba5/kdoF67Q01lqWObq/NL2aTA82rxIqA+gQPGTuM28ef4LMe/8+1TKvs7l rmIiqYHy14ETJj8uNXvejq7HzNkz2layIqCcadejcw79W27q29WkpaF93Tknz3f5 OAzeU1ImDAal8mtq0w/xgtgpo0y8qxtwZ4uiBokx/ld+euh37JOUSf5n02bkY9q/ blKghZK2Ghih4A/GRh4w/ps0rpavNVgAMgBUVW/qDsNRsLExhklVFWt18em+auw= =49vW -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d567009@kulisz.net
Re: OT: Small network with 4 switches
technically, sw1 -> sw4, sw2 -> sw4, sw3 -> sw4 is better, but in fact, as workstations, i don't think you will find much difference however you link them, unless all your stations are transferring big files all the time. so, link them the way you comfort is OK. On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: > Hi Sluggers, > > I got 4 un-managed switches, 3 (sw1, sw2, sw3) in the same room for > workstations, and 1 (sw4) in the server room (debian-samba) > Currently I link those 3 switches to the 1 in the server. > > Those switches are 4 ports, please do not ask why the company insist of > using > them (money talk...) > > Out of curiosity for network-savvy-out-there, would it better if I link sw3 > -> > sw2 -> sw1 -> sw4 > > or, better to leave as my config: sw1 -> sw4, sw2 -> sw4, sw3 -> sw4 > > It just bothering me to know which one is better... > > Thanks a lot. > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/340571.6763...@web65701.mail.ac4.yahoo.com > > -- Linuxer using Arch/Ubuntu, Pythoner, Geek --> Blog: http://apt-blog.net --> FB: http://www.facebook.com/boypt
OT: Small network with 4 switches
Hi Sluggers, I got 4 un-managed switches, 3 (sw1, sw2, sw3) in the same room for workstations, and 1 (sw4) in the server room (debian-samba) Currently I link those 3 switches to the 1 in the server. Those switches are 4 ports, please do not ask why the company insist of using them (money talk...) Out of curiosity for network-savvy-out-there, would it better if I link sw3 -> sw2 -> sw1 -> sw4 or, better to leave as my config: sw1 -> sw4, sw2 -> sw4, sw3 -> sw4 It just bothering me to know which one is better... Thanks a lot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/340571.6763...@web65701.mail.ac4.yahoo.com
