Timeline for Switches in chain topology for ~40 devices
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| Dec 4, 2023 at 15:39 | answer | added | Peter Green | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 27, 2023 at 22:38 | comment | added | Criggie | Clarify the abbreviation DUT please ? I presume its a small unmanaged desktop switch/device from context, but I've never heard this and even google can't find an acronym relevant to ethernet. | |
| Jun 27, 2023 at 14:30 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jun 27, 2023 at 14:25 | answer | added | Zac67♦ | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 27, 2023 at 6:15 | answer | added | Marc 'netztier' Luethi | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 27, 2023 at 5:36 | comment | added | user1397215 | @RonMaupin, sorry I might have confused you, there are 40 DUTs in total in the network, spread around the 7 switches. The other things I have come across with that could be an issue with this topology: no STP configuration to protect if the last switch in the chain gets looped into the first switch the chain (this creates a loop so STP would be required?), and hop limit might be reached easily in this topology (e.g. 16 hops for other protocols). Not sure if my understanding is correct though | |
| Jun 27, 2023 at 2:57 | comment | added | Ron Maupin♦ | That is horrible. You are going to start dropping frames (bandwidth usage get worse and worse as you go from end-to-end), and spanning tree cannot deal with a diameter that big. You are correct in that with 40 daisy-chained switches, you will have 39 single-points of failure that can disrupt the chain. | |
| S Jun 27, 2023 at 2:53 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Jun 27, 2023 at 2:53 | history | asked | user1397215 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |