Bridging Towers for Own Network (Please Help!)

[sploit]

Hi, we have multiple tower locations now, and everything is going good.
I will have a network switch connection to a YDI etherant II LR bridge (From tower to tower) to another network switch.

My question is, in this situation, I could then use my STATIC Class C ip range off our pipe to the second tower.

Now, I have a third tower that is close to that one. I should be able to plug 2 more EtherANT LR's between the second and third tower and plug it into the second ethernet switch to be able to use my class C on the third tower also right?
Every tower is within 3 miles of each other.

The purpose of this is to create a "Daisy Chain" of switches through the ethernet switches using the bridges and be able to use My Class C off any tower.

Please tell me if I will run into any problems or network loops. I have not worked with multple bridges before. I am assuming it will work, because the bridges are just like running CAT5, and I know you can link multiple auto sensing switches together with cat5.

Please Respond to post. Thanx

[georgew]

In theory it should work fine.

But in theory bridging switches together should work fine too.

We used to have a stack of Cisco switches daisychained together, and it worked fine for a long time. However traffic levels eventually grew, and the switches started having really weird problems that Cisco could not solve. When we bought a new, larger cisco switch, it failed too, so they sent us another, to swap out with it... Turns out it was a software problem, and there was no fix. Our class c had too much traffic, and had to be re-worked. We were so miffed with Cisco, that it didn't bother us that we had an extra switch out of the deal that they never asked to have back.

The point is it should work, but don't be shocked to discover that there are limitations and problems that can creep in.

[lonnie]

I can't help you. Sorry.

[sploit]

Heh :shock:
No Way!

[bobbyc]

Route, route, route
:)