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2 uplinks with XS508M
I currently have a Cisco switch with 4 10Gb SFP ports connected to a stack via 2 Fiber cables. While this does not give me 20Gb it provides redundancy and to my understanding, it doubles its bandwidth. Out of one of the other SFP ports is a Fiber cable that connects to the SFP port on my XS508M.
Can someone tell me if the XS508M will behave the same if I plug one of the non-Combo ports into the other 10Gb ports, using a known working SFP-RJ45 adapter on the Cisco?
By rule of thumb you won't do anything good just to connect multiple network links between your switches. Unless configured fo link aggregation (or the two Cisco switches are in a stack configuration), STP will almost certainly disable one of the two links.
Said that: The XS50xM is a non-managed or non-configureable switch, so there is no way to configure any LAG. To protect the network from a loop condition, the switch will have to disable one of these two (or more) connections if not properly configured. While you can connect ahost with more then one link eg. to a static LAG, you can't do this with an unmanaged switch like these.
Regards
-Kurr
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By rule of thumb you won't do anything good just to connect multiple network links between your switches. Unless configured fo link aggregation (or the two Cisco switches are in a stack configuration), STP will almost certainly disable one of the two links.
Said that: The XS50xM is a non-managed or non-configureable switch, so there is no way to configure any LAG. To protect the network from a loop condition, the switch will have to disable one of these two (or more) connections if not properly configured. While you can connect ahost with more then one link eg. to a static LAG, you can't do this with an unmanaged switch like these.
Regards
-Kurr
Thanks for the info.
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