need to connect my cisco 3500 to my netgear fs524 - help

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troyquigley

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i have a cisco catalyst 3500xl (48 port) 100base
i have a netgear fs524 (24port)

they are about 200 feet away from each other.

i was wondering why i cannot plug port 47 (cisco) into port 23 (netgear)
&
port 48 (cisco) into port 24 (netgear)

when i do this. ALL the lights on my cisco switch start blinkning and the network goes down.
 
KaosDG said:
are you using link aggregation on the switches?
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the netgear is a unmanaged switch.

how can i tell if my cisco switch is setup for "link aggregation" ?

do both switches have to support "link aggregation"?
 
Looking at it's specefication sheet for the netgear, it doesent support Spanning Tree or Link Aggreation, so you can only use 1 port for interconnectivity. I dont think I have ever seen an unmanaged switch that supports Link Aggregation. (so the answer is yes they BOTH have to support it)

Link Aggregation would have allowed you to combine the 2 links to act as one doubling your throughput.

Spanning tree would block one of the ports and could act as a backup link.

The reason all the lights come on is because you created a loop. It's the same bunch of packets flying around in a circle. 1 link should be fine unless you need extra bandwidth.
 
moetop said:
Looking at it's specefication sheet for the netgear, it doesent support Spanning Tree or Link Aggreation, so you can only use 1 port for interconnectivity. I dont think I have ever seen an unmanaged switch that supports Link Aggregation. (so the answer is yes they BOTH have to support it)

Link Aggregation would have allowed you to combine the 2 links to act as one doubling your throughput.

Spanning tree would block one of the ports and could act as a backup link.

The reason all the lights come on is because you created a loop. It's the same bunch of packets flying around in a circle. 1 link should be fine unless you need extra bandwidth.
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thank you very much for the help. now i know. oh well.
 
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