Re: GB Switch Issues
- From: "Brian Desmond [MVP]" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:17:05 -0400
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Thanks,
Brian Desmond
Windows Server MVP
www.briandesmond.com
"Terri S" <TS@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have the cable guys installed two CAT6 cables in between the two rooms,
>each room I have a All-GB-port switch (unmanaged, shown on the drawing, one
>16 port and one 8 ports)
>
> in closet B is where we have the SAN and are planning on putting most of
> our servers, I decided to build a GB backbone before all this happen, I
> already had about 60-70 ports of workstations occupied in room B
> (SW24-ABC), in which they are on 10/100 ports (all unmanaged switches as
> well) with two GB uplink port (on the drawing I showed the way I chained
> them) so they can all talk to room A (from SW24-ABC to SW8) where all the
> servers were at that time
>
>
> We have some servers now connected to SW16, including the SAN file server
> which everybody is going to hit once we open the door to the SAN storage,
> the cable marked " 1 " is the cable it rely on to talk to the rest of the
> network (room A has about 60-70 percent of workstations and half of the
> servers still there), that means (correct me if I am wrong) before people
> can get to the SAN, it has to go through Switch ABC (SW24-ABC s on the
> drawing), the GB connection has to be divided by the switch chains,
>
>
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> With that in mind, I activated the other original CAT6 run (which runs
> between the rooms, marked "2" on the drawing") by connecting switches SW16
> and SW8 in hope that people can get faster access to the SAN and the
> servers on SW16, but I immediately get people's calls that network is not
> working (especially the email and the internet) and it back to work if I
> disconnect the cable marked "2"
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> so does means this setting does not allow 2 uplink cables on SW16 ? should
> I have disconnect 1 before connect 2 ?
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> note that I put down on the drawing that the SW8 also goes to other 10/100
> switches in room A, which majority of user there complained about the down
> connection, I also have all the users complain about email not work
> because the exchange server is connected to the SW16, I didn't have time
> to check around but I believe the outage was across the broad as soon as I
> connected cable 2
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