<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Typically, unmanaged switches don't even support STP. This is because STP allows you to change some of the parameters--Fast Learning / PortFast, whether you're running "traditional" STP or "rapid" STP, and so on. What would very likely happen is a loop...which would bring down that entire bridged segment. You really need managed switches to do this. Have you done a bandwidth analysis to see just where your bottleneck is? --TP <div class="moz-signature">_______________________________ Do you <a href="http://www.gnu.org">GNU</a>? <a href="http://www.cmosnetworks.com">Microsoft Free since 2003</a>--the ultimate antivirus protection! </div> Cory Cartwright wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1235350445.31790.5.camel@localhost" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I apologize if you have already gotten or know the answer. You are talking about an ether channel and I don't believe an unmanaged switch would support that. What it would probably support is a (STP) spanning tree protocol. With STP one link would would be placed in a blocking state while the other in a forwarding state, this provides redundancy but not increased bandwidth. On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 13:51 -0600, Barry R Cisna wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hello List, I forgot to mention in my initial post,that these switches are unmanaged switches. AKA plug'n play. 26port 24-10/100 + two GIGE uplink. I am guessing I am SOL seeing how these can not be 'multilinked'? Maybe time for some new managed switches,ay. Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Barry _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.k12os.org"><http://www.k12os.org></a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.k12os.org"><http://www.k12os.org></a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>