Ethernet suggestions

[Stephen Partington]

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 <stephenson2773 at gmail.com>
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
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