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:

is about the HP Switch 208t and 224T. The documentation there implies that the switches will always use Spanning Tree (unless you specifically configure otherwise), and yet they are not managed switches unless you add the optional "HP Advancestack Switch 208/224 Management Module".

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.