On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 06:09:06PM -0300, John Nietzsche wrote:
| Dear gentleman/madam,
|
| i was given 4 2724 dell powerconnect switches and only 6 patch cords.
| Besides that, i was given a challenge to connect them each other
| having a full interconnection schema (thanks my classes on graph
| theory, i could do it using only 6 patch cords). So, given any two
| switches there is a direct path between them. Instead of cascading,
| this approach avoid a single point of failure and allows, for
| instance, a uplink of 3 Gb/s between any given two switches and
| reduces patch cords usage (my graph edges in this scenario).
|
| The problem raises when i turn them on: After some time (from seconds
| to 1 or even 2 minutes) the switches go crazy. I cannot even ping the
| ip assigned to the switch i am connected directly not to mention a
| desktop located on another switch.
Sounds like your switches are not configured to do (rapid) spanning
tree...
| Is there any configuration that could be done to allow such
| interconnection shema ?
Look up 'spanning tree' and see if you can configure it on them
powerconnects (of course, after you learn what problem this solves and
understand how it (if it) applies to your setup).
Good luck ;)
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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