Switching

I'm designing a metro fiber ring (1000 mbps) that will have a 9-10 hop diameter. IEEE says no more than 7 hops, but a colleague says that was recommended with 10 mbps links in mind. Any thoughts on STP failing if I have the extra hops on the gig ring...

What is the preferred method of connecting a 2 link channel group at Layer 3 between a 6513 wunning the Hybrid OS and a 6513 running the Native IOS? Thanks for your suggestions.

Good evening,I am working on an issue where a high amount of broadcast data (15Mbps~) on a vlan on a single 3750 with an SVI is causing the switch's cpu to run at near 100% all day.The users on this segment need to be routed to the internet etc, but ...

Hi,I'm configuring the network as seen in the attachment.I would like to have one rapid spanning tree domain per vlan. But I'm not quite sure if the routers also support rpvst+ or just pvst+. The core is running rpvst+. The routers seem to adapt to t...

hi all,i am unable to ping or telnet the switchfrom router which is directly connected to switchusers are conencted to switch and they can work fine.

I am trying to upgrade to a newer IOS ( c2800nm-adventerprisek9-sna-mz.124-19.bin). I am having no luck, and about 40% i get a time out or when i tried yesterday i received the message "not enough space". I have tried the following- used another 2800...

When I install the new VPN client other PC's on the network cannot ping my PC.

need to know if 2950 switches can route between VLAN's WITHOUT an external router.

We have a PeopleSoft ERP installation with two web servers. Our networking department purchased a 3750e switch as we wanted to load balance the two web servers.However, I don't think we are getting what we need from the current configuration. Ideally...