switch trunking

What is the best way to link up 3 switches??

One switch is in one room and the other two switches are in another.

Switch1 is where all the servers are.

Switch 2 and Switch 3 are in another room where all the users and printers
feed into.

I'm doing trunking or link aggregation.. Wondering the best way to go about
it?

I have SIX Cat5e lines going from switch one to the other room..

Should I make a trunk to Switch 2 using 3 of those lines and a trunk to
switch 3 using
the other 3

OR

Should I use ALL six to go to the other room trunk into switch2 and then
make a trunk
from switch 2 and switch 3???

Switch 3 is where all the users are plugged in.. Switch 2 has 24 ports
available..

just curious on the best way to set up trunking with 3 switches.

What trunks? There are no multiple subnets here that I see. I see no
VLANs. There are no trunks.

Business quality switches will have two or more ports that are faster than
the rest. You link them together via those ports. This would be considered
a Backbone Cabling or Uplink Cabling.

Don't create any "loops" with the cabling unless you are going to start
using the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP).

With your floor layout you would just run one Uplink from Sw1 to Sw2,...and
then another from Sw2 to Sw3. There would be no cable from Sw1 to
Sw3,..that would cause a Loop and it would all come crashing down on your
head unless you ran STP.



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Phillip Windell

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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"George" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:e$(E-Mail Removed)...
> What is the best way to link up 3 switches??
>
> One switch is in one room and the other two switches are in another.
>
> Switch1 is where all the servers are.
>
> Switch 2 and Switch 3 are in another room where all the users and printers
> feed into.
>
> I'm doing trunking or link aggregation.. Wondering the best way to go
> about it?
>
> I have SIX Cat5e lines going from switch one to the other room..
>
> Should I make a trunk to Switch 2 using 3 of those lines and a trunk to
> switch 3 using
> the other 3
>
> OR
>
> Should I use ALL six to go to the other room trunk into switch2 and then
> make a trunk
> from switch 2 and switch 3???
>
> Switch 3 is where all the users are plugged in.. Switch 2 has 24 ports
> available..
>
> just curious on the best way to set up trunking with 3 switches.
>

Have 2 Dell Power connect 6224 and 1 Dell Power Connect 3548.
Can do LAG links and can do Spanning Tree..

There is only one subnet 172.22.x and only one VLAN..

I have about 40 users and a couple of servers.. Windows 2008 domain.




"Phillip Windell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> What trunks? There are no multiple subnets here that I see. I see no
> VLANs. There are no trunks.
>
> Business quality switches will have two or more ports that are faster than
> the rest. You link them together via those ports. This would be
> considered a Backbone Cabling or Uplink Cabling.
>
> Don't create any "loops" with the cabling unless you are going to start
> using the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP).
>
> With your floor layout you would just run one Uplink from Sw1 to
> Sw2,...and then another from Sw2 to Sw3. There would be no cable from
> Sw1 to Sw3,..that would cause a Loop and it would all come crashing down
> on your head unless you ran STP.
>
>
>
> --
> Phillip Windell
>
> The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or
> Microsoft,
> or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> "George" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:e$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> What is the best way to link up 3 switches??
>>
>> One switch is in one room and the other two switches are in another.
>>
>> Switch1 is where all the servers are.
>>
>> Switch 2 and Switch 3 are in another room where all the users and
>> printers feed into.
>>
>> I'm doing trunking or link aggregation.. Wondering the best way to go
>> about it?
>>
>> I have SIX Cat5e lines going from switch one to the other room..
>>
>> Should I make a trunk to Switch 2 using 3 of those lines and a trunk to
>> switch 3 using
>> the other 3
>>
>> OR
>>
>> Should I use ALL six to go to the other room trunk into switch2 and then
>> make a trunk
>> from switch 2 and switch 3???
>>
>> Switch 3 is where all the users are plugged in.. Switch 2 has 24 ports
>> available..
>>
>> just curious on the best way to set up trunking with 3 switches.
>>
>
>

"George" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Have 2 Dell Power connect 6224 and 1 Dell Power Connect 3548.
> Can do LAG links and can do Spanning Tree..
>
> There is only one subnet 172.22.x and only one VLAN..
>
> I have about 40 users and a couple of servers.. Windows 2008 domain.

Then you can either do it just as I described or Cable them in a Loop (would
appear like a Triangle) if you enable STP. But if no STP then do it like I
first said,...if the STP gives you crap then forget it, not worth it,...turn
STP off and do it like I first described.

**Change your Mask** So not use 255.255.0.0!!! You do not have 65,023
users.

Ethernet looses efficiency and performance starts to nosedive after around
250-300 hosts,...so never go beyond a normal 254Host network given by the
traditional /24bit mask (255.255.255.0). You can go smaller than that,..but
not bigger.

If you say,.."But I only have 40 users!",...doesn't matter,..the addresses
are still part of the LAN whether they are in use or not,...and they will
get in the way and cause address conflicts if you ever have to do a VPN to
another network and they happen to be using addresses *anywhere* within
172.22.x.x

You have a very small network,...fixing your addressing would be extremely
easy at this point,...but the longer you wait and the more messy the network
gets,...the more difficult it gets to fix. It will only get worse and get
uglier if you don't do it now.


--
Phillip Windell

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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