From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 20 10:55:26 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 0042637B401 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:55:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from nemesis.systems.pipex.net (nemesis.systems.pipex.net [62.241.160.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7613543EDA for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:55:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stacey@vickiandstacey.com) Received: from [192.168.1.8] (81-86-129-77.dsl.pipex.com [81.86.129.77]) by nemesis.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5640A160073E4; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:55:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: Networking hardware question From: Stacey Roberts Reply-To: stacey@vickiandstacey.com To: Christophe Simon Cc: FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1040410514.58381.43.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 20 Dec 2002 18:55:15 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Christophe, On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 18:47, Christophe Simon wrote: > 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 ! > > Not sure for others, but I seem to recall that 3COM Office Desktop switches actually do specify the max number of units you can daisy-chain together. Not sure about bridging though.., sorry. Stcey > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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 -- Stacey Roberts B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science Web: www.vickiandstacey.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message