On Sunday 26 February 2006 17:19, Abhishek Daga wrote: > Apparatus/Equipment. > a) SMC wireless dsl router (3 port) > b) three 8 port switches, (dlink, dax, smc) > > Setup: > 4 ports in each are used to connect to various PCs. > 1 port used up to connect to the wireless router. > > Problem: > I have had issues with routers where frequent reseting is required. > So to prevent the entire internal network going down because of a bad > router, I decided to make the connections redundant. > > So connected Port 6 of dlink to port 6 of Dax. > Port 7 of dlink to port 6 of smc. > Port 7 of dax to port 7 of smc > with the assumption that even if the router fails, i'l have > uninterrupted access. > > But this was not to be. Things got messed up, despite enabled > connections, machines would not ping each other or the router. > > Then finally removed the links from Switch 1 and 2 to the router and > also the connection from dax to smc and it started working fine. > > So what got messed up in the above setup? I am thinking its something > to do with conflicts but not convinced as to why there would be a > conflict?
Sorry but i fail to see the redundancy of the above setup. If I understand correctly, then each of the 3 routers are connected to 4 different PCs. So if one fails then some of the PCs will be able to talk to each other. The ones connected to the failed router would be out of the network for good. -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
