Hello,
It has been ages since I've worried about it and now I've forgotten the rules. If I have an bunch of unmanaged switches, do I need to worry about the cascading rule
I have 5 switches in a server room and 1 in a closet.
I believe the current environment is - Switch 1 links to Switch 2,3,4,5 and 6 - no other connections between the switches.
This may be antiquated hub thinking that is no longer applicable. It has been a while since I've seen so many ports on an unmanaged backbone.
Thanks
For Ethernet , I believe it was 4 repeating hubs that could be daisy-chained together
Are you able to check whether any interface errors are occuring?
How many ports on each switch / total devices connected ?
Make and model of switches?
They are unmanaged switches.
There are 24 ports per switch.
They are nearly all full.
Well having over 100+ devices connected without any management visibility is probably not a good thing.
Personally I would look to have at least one managed layer 3 switch to partition your network into samller subnets and to provide some traffic visisbility.
NetGear sells these types of switches (i.e. like FSM7326P)
Thanks
I have no issue with that statement but there is no money in our budget so we have to make sure what we have is OK.
Anyone know if the cascade rule applies to switches?
The cascading rule does not apply to Ethernet switches connected back to back as each Ethernet port is in a a sepate collision domain.
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