[Klug-general] Network Switches

Peter Childs peterachilds at gmail.com
Fri May 15 18:57:11 UTC 2009


2009/5/15 Colin <binarysignal at gmail.com>:
> 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.

I have some switches I don't use for the same reason. I think I have 3
different brands in current use I'll check what they are on monday.
This is a 90% linux network mind you.

Peter

>
> 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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