I am still wrapping my head around why this was the root design. I am not sure what gains you have vs having a pair of switches for redundancy. time to research RSTP. On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 3:34 PM kelly stephenson wrote: > Looking for some networking advice from the group. > > The system I have has several devices connected in a ring configuration > using one Ethernet port IN and one Ethernet port out. The system uses RSTP > for loop free operation. The idea is simplicity for installation, you just > unplug and plugin a new device in the ring plus you gain redundancy, if one > Ethernet cable breaks you still have another one. This works but my client > has never had more then a half dozen devices on the network yet. > When I say devices just imagine very large machines. The number of > devices could be as many as 100 in the ring or network. Everything I've > researched on RSTP says over 8 devices and its not effective/efficient so > I'm researching other Ethernet failover/failsafe/redundant solutions. > So, the local network configuration needs to scale up to 100 devices, have > redundancy, and low latency for M2M control. Any thoughts? > > Thanks > Kelly > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen