[TriLUG] Network Guru Needed

[Mike Johnson]

Brian Henning [brian at strutmasters.com] wrote:
> That reminds me..  I think I read something about that a while ago but long
> since forgot what or where..  Suppose I want to establish a bit of physical
> redundancy between some switches by having more than one cable between them.
> That this causes packet floods makes sense to me, the loop is obvious..  My
> question is, what does one need to make that stop, and retain the
> redundancy?

You're looking at managed switches and the spanning tree protocol.

Mike
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