Re: OT: fully interconnect switches: interesting problem

2008-02-25 Thread johan beisser
On Feb 25, 2008, at 6:39 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: But if the switches don't know how to handle this setup, then they'll go crazy. I don't know if these switches can be told how to handle this. They can. The Dell Powerconnect 2700 are basically rebranded Cisco switches running CatOS.

Re: OT: fully interconnect switches: interesting problem

2008-02-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 04:36:46PM -0800, Matthew Dempsky wrote: > On 2/24/08, bofh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Probably broadcast storm. Fastest way to fix the problem - single > > connect your switches, and don't loop the last back to the first. > > He explained in his post that the multipl

Re: OT: fully interconnect switches: interesting problem

2008-02-24 Thread bofh
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Matthew Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/24/08, bofh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Probably broadcast storm. Fastest way to fix the problem - single > > connect your switches, and don't loop the last back to the first. > > He explained in his post tha

Re: OT: fully interconnect switches: interesting problem

2008-02-24 Thread Matthew Dempsky
On 2/24/08, bofh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Probably broadcast storm. Fastest way to fix the problem - single > connect your switches, and don't loop the last back to the first. He explained in his post that the multiple connections were to avoid single points of failure.

Re: OT: fully interconnect switches: interesting problem

2008-02-24 Thread Paul de Weerd
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 |

Re: OT: fully interconnect switches: interesting problem

2008-02-24 Thread bofh
Probably broadcast storm. Fastest way to fix the problem - single connect your switches, and don't loop the last back to the first. Then, learn how switches work. I only have a rudimentary understanding myself. On 2/24/08, John Nietzsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear gentleman/madam, > > i

Re: OT: fully interconnect switches: interesting problem

2008-02-24 Thread johan beisser
Did you configure STP, or are the switches figuring this out on their own? On Feb 24, 2008, at 1:09 PM, 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

OT: fully interconnect switches: interesting problem

2008-02-24 Thread John Nietzsche
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