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Can the current switch structure be changed to a mesh configuration?
We have a switch configuration in a tree structure consisting of M4300 24XF-Nodal -Fiber, M4300 24X-Nodal -RJ45, M4300-52GPOE Control -MediaServer, M4250 26G4FPOE Control-OpRoom, M4300-52GPOE-Dante, M4300-48X 10G/NDI - MediaServer, and M4250-26G4F AVCN01~13.
Here are my questions:
Is it possible for data to find its way to the IP even without a router? Is efficient packet movement possible?
Can the current switch structure be changed to a mesh configuration?
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DOHEELEE wrote:
Is it possible for data to find its way to the IP even without a router?
Yes, of course. Routing (L3) does always have more overhead then a pure L2 switched network.
DOHEELEE wrote:
Is efficient packet movement possible?
Any specific issues you are behind?
DOHEELEE wrote:
Can the current switch structure be changed to a mesh configuration?
Reading to much consumer WiFi marketing? Mesh networking has not made it into the switched Ethernet world.
First of all, I'm not a networking expert. Currently, our network topology is configured in a tree structure using M4250 and M4300 switches. However, for some reason, we are experiencing network issues that cause the entire network to go down.
As a brief thought, although it may not be a fundamental solution to the problem, I wondered if changing the network topology from a tree to a mesh could potentially allow for transmission to be routed to the other side in case of issues on one side.
The beauty of these managed switches is the availability of a complete logging and management capabilities. Lack of insight, hard to guess what is going wrong.
Don't hesitate to contact the Netgear ProAV Design Support to get assistance.
Of course, considering you have enough high bandwidth ports available, you could consider to configure some redundancy on your network using some clever spanning tree config for example This is more for the case if one of the tree configured switches devices would go down.
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