[Klug-general] Network Switches

[Colin]

What make are the 8 port switches? We had Dlink ones at work but had
to bin them as they kept falling over.we assumed they could not cope
with large arp tables.

On 5/15/09, Peter Childs <peterachilds at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/5/15 Daniel Subert <zm at zone12.co.uk>:
>> What's the pattern for the switches? Are they connected in a star, bus
>> or circle network? If star, replacing the main switch with a managed
>> one may work.
>
> Star give or take.
>
> 3 x 24 port switches
> 5 x 8 port switches
>
> Most of the switches are plugged into the same 24port switch. but I
> think there might be one or two which are not..... We also have 2 x
> 10Mbit Hubs that are used due to distance from main network. (They are
> not over 100 metres but we got so much signal loss we found taking the
> speed down to 10Meg made the link work......
> My aim has been to try and ensure that each packet goes through as few
> switches as possible.....
> The problem seam to mainly occur with machine plugged into the main
> 24port switches.
>
> I do have this feeling that swapping to a managed switch might fix the
> problem. Since two of the 24 port switches are right next to each
> other. (The other on the otherside of the office). I could swap
> something in to there quite easily. If I can say it will fix the
> problem and raise the budget.
>
> Peter.
>
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