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Date:      Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:47:16 +0000
From:      "Christophe Simon" <titof3000@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Networking hardware question
Message-ID:  <F165b9wwbRxON727VOL00012b23@hotmail.com>

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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 !





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