cascading unmanaged switches

There is no limit, as each switch port is a collision domain all by itself. You can have any number you want, though at some point the complexity and troubleshooting issues will overwhelm you...

There is a spanning tree equipment of "no more than 7 hops"

But where unmanaged switches don't do spanning tree, does that still apply? [You won't detect loops, but that's manual management for you...]

There is no limit as regards to ethernet. Each packet is received, stored and transmitted by every bridge according to how a bridge is supposed to work.

You might be concerned by other stuff ( Spanning tree and excessive broadcasts are two items)

The few that I saw still runs spanning tree. You just can't manage the switch, poll it via snmp or create manual root bridges.

|> The few that I saw still runs spanning tree. You just can't manage the |> switch, poll it via snmp or create manual root bridges.

|Forgive my rudeness, but now I really feel you're talking out of body |openings not meant for verbal communication. Unless you provide examples, |I shall chuckle and ignore.

You are responding to a posting that is more than a month old.

But if you need a specific example:

Forgive my rudeness, but now I really feel you're talking out of body openings not meant for verbal communication. Unless you provide examples, I shall chuckle and ignore.

/steven

- 'Every mighty oak was once a nut who stood his ground'

Unless I'm mistaken, spanning tree only comes into play, when there are multiple paths to any computer. As long as you stick to a heirarcheal tree structure, you don't have to worry about that.