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Default Network wiring problem - weird one!

"Ron Lowe" ronATlowe-famlyDOTmeDOTukSPURIOUS coughed up some electrons
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"tony sayer" wrote in message
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Smarter switches will handle looped topology correctly, ( and indeed
will
use this for redundancy ) using the 'spanning tree protocol',


What switches have that built in?.....
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Tony Sayer




Certainly the cicso ones do.

I can't really say about others.
You'd need to check their data sheets.


And Extreme Networks (much underrated IMO - very nice to work with)

Cheers

Tim