From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 20 10:50:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB1337B401 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:50:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (f165.pav1.hotmail.com [64.4.31.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A6C343ED8 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:50:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from titof3000@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:47:16 -0800 Received: from 212.198.0.93 by pv1fd.pav1.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:47:16 GMT X-Originating-IP: [212.198.0.93] From: "Christophe Simon" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Networking hardware question Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:47:16 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Dec 2002 18:47:16.0773 (UTC) FILETIME=[37DEC550:01C2A858] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, For one week, I have the responsability to administrate a LAN in a society where there's at least 5 swithes and 1 hub connected together in chain. I heard that plugging too many hubs or swithes in chain can cause network stability problems. Is that right, and what can I do. I have been adviced to put a bridge station between twoo switches in the chain, but I didn't succeeded in configuring the twoo interfaces (twoo RTL 8139 cards) on the same network adress (for exemple 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2 cards in the same box...) and making a bridge. I compiled my kernel with the BRIDGE option, and I put sysct.net.link.bridge_cfg=rl0:0,rl1:0 in sysctl.conf. Im I on the rigt way, and if not so on, what ca I do ? Thanks a lot ! _________________________________________________________________ MSN Messenger : discutez en direct avec vos amis ! http://www.msn.fr/msger/default.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message