On 26/02/06 09:19 -0800, Abhishek Daga wrote: <snip>
> 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. > Google: Spanning Tree. Homework: State with reasons why the original configuration fails. Devdas Bhagat -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
