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84APPENDIX B: NETWORK CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES
Enhancing the | Figure 25 shows how you can set your network up to enhance its |
Performance of Your | performance. |
Network | All ports are |
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| pass data across the network at the optimum available speed and duplex |
| mode. Flow control will help avoid packet loss during periods of network |
| congestion. A Gigabit Ethernet backbone is set up between the Switch |
| 4900 and each Switch in the workgroups to increase the bandwidth, and |
| therefore the overall network performance. |
| Figure 25 Network set up to enhance performance |
Switch 4200 unit
Endstations on 10/100 Mbps connections
Production Workgroups
1000 Mbps with
aggregated linksStack of four Switch 4200 units set up
Endstations on 10/100 Mbps connections
Administrative Workgroups
1000 Mbps link blocked by Spanning Tree Protocol
100 Mbps
Servers on 1000 Mbps connections with resilient links set up
Switch 4900 | 1000 Mbps |