<html><head><meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title>Employee Name</title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="NeoOffice 2.2 (Unix)"><meta name="AUTHOR" content="heather.asta"><meta name="CREATED" content="20090717;13260000"><meta name="CHANGED" content="20090803;13242100"><style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin-right: 1.25in; margin-top: 1in; margin-bottom: 1in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; direction: ltr; color: #000000; widows: 2; orphans: 2 } P.western { font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; so-language: en-US } P.cjk { font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt } P.ctl { font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; so-language: ar-SA } --> </style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I am trying to get a handle on our company's physical network. <div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The problem I am running into is automatic switch redundancy. I have CARP for my pfsense boxes, but the physical network at this company is sort of a mess. We have switches that feed one cable out to a node where there is a small feeder switch that can branch 2-16 more times. I guess the company just did not want to go to expense of running a bundle of wires out.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Before I hang my head in absolute shame over this, has anyone overcome this? Most of the problem is just growth. They ran 'n' cables in the beginning without thinking about printers and other potential IP nodes that may be used in the future. </div><div><br></div><div>So the result pretty much looks like this, main switch -> small netgear 8 port switch -> accountant's computer, his printer, his assistant's computer, her printer.</div><div><br></div><div>We tried wireless and this works most of the time, but the building we are in seems to be grand central station for 11000 WAPs and they compete a lot with each other.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Is this complete bush league or is this something that you have dealt with on the IT management side? I also just can't figure out a cost effective way to make this scheme fault tolerant. Any suggestions would be....excellent.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div lang="en-US" text="#000000" dir="LTR"> <p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#86001A"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Chris</b></span></font></p></div></div></div></body></html>