From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 24 19:54:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from gjp.erols.com (alex-va-n008c079.moon.jic.com [206.156.18.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9252114DA6 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 19:54:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) Received: from gjp.erols.com (localhost.erols.com [127.0.0.1]) by gjp.erols.com (8.9.1/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA34558; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 22:54:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: "Jasper O'Malley" Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: switch vs bridge In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 24 Mar 1999 21:28:03 CST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 22:54:12 -0500 Message-ID: <34554.922334052@gjp.erols.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Jasper O'Malley" wrote in message ID : > > A switch should be immune to loops... > > No more so than a simple bridge, in my experience. Turn on spanning-tree. And be ready for your network to die for 30 seconds every time you add/remove a switch (at least with the Synoptics^W Bay Netowks ^W^W Nortel 28115). Haven't tried/noticed that problem with any other switches tho. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message