We have a 100-BASE-T segment from a Cisco 2924XL switch that runs about 240 feet to a small D-Link 5-port 10/100 switch. From there, there's a line running between 50 and 75 feet. Until recently, that was connected to a PC, and everything worked fine. We now want to attach more than one PC at the end of the last line, so we thought we could just add another D-Link switch. Each line out of this new switch would only be about six (6) feet long. Are we violating a spec. with this configuration? I ask because with the new switch inline, we don't have any real connectivity. (The link seems OK, but we can't ping anything, for example.) Removing the new D-Link switch allows us to connect from either of the PCs we want to use (but we'd prefer not having to manually switch the cable ;-).
Thanks, Mike
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