Daisy Chained Switch Limitations

[patrick.hurley]

If I remember correctly, there are no limitations to the number of switches that can be daisy chained, correct?

[Prashanth Krishnappa]

Best practice is not to exceed network diameter of default 7

http://www.cisco.com/warp/customer/473/16.html#2f

http://cio.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/cat6000/sw_6_3/cmd_ref/setsy_tr.htm#42195

[msjouw]

Well I've been posting this question on a different forum also and the outcome is:

THERE IS NO LIMIT, besides the bridge ID which maxes out at 65535.

The only reason the diameter of 7 existed was spanning tree and at that it is a very old RECOMMENDATION. The limitations will be the broadcast domain, number of hosts in one flat network and the switches' limitation on the mac table.

Regards, Maarten Sjouw.

[bsivasub]

upto nine switches can be cascaded using the gigastack gbic..