David Kirk wrote:
Robert's point about only being able to daisy chain up to 2 switches
is incorrect. Our network has at least 10 switches all linked
together with redundant links.
IIRC switching is done at MAC level. Each switch only has so much
memory in it to remember where the MAC addresses are for other switches.
This is why you can only daisy so many together.
I agree with everyone who's said you'll notice very little, if any,
difference with two switches.
I've had up to 4 or 5 of those little 4 and 8 port units daisyed in the
past without to many issues. The older 10mbit ones tend to suffer from
colisions if you're putting heavy traffic on them - Yes, I understand
you're not talking about those, it's just a comment of experience.
HTH
Cheers Don
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