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No. It can cause issues with traffic.<br />
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JamesTX10
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No. It can cause issues with traffic.

JamesTX10

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It is a common practice. &nbsp;You would either use SNMP to manage the loop, or better yet, use some kind of aggregated mechanism to &quot;bond&quot; the connections together - such as fast etherchannel or Nortel's Split Multi Link Trunking.
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It is a common practice.  You would either use SNMP to manage the loop, or better yet, use some kind of aggregated mechanism to "bond" the connections together - such as fast etherchannel or Nortel's Split Multi Link Trunking.

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You're welcome John, thanks!
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Hi experts,<br />
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It is comman practice to use 2 ports to connect between switches?<br />
Currently we have a single port to port connection but seems like an obvious point of failure?<br />
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Thanks
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Hi experts,

It is comman practice to use 2 ports to connect between switches?
Currently we have a single port to port connection but seems like an obvious point of failure?

Thanks

Switch connectivity

Networking is the process of connecting computing devices, peripherals and terminals together through a system that uses wiring, cabling or radio waves that enable their users to communicate, share information and interact over distances. Often associated are issues regarding operating systems, hardware and equipment, cloud and virtual networking, protocols, architecture, storage and management.

Networking

A switch is a device that filters and forwards packets of data between LAN segments. Switches operate at the data link layer or the network layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model and therefore support any packet protocol. LANs that use switches to join segments are called switched LANs or, in the case of Ethernet networks, switched Ethernet LANs. A hub is a connection point for devices in a network. Hubs are commonly used to connect segments of a LAN. A hub contains multiple ports; when a packet arrives at one port, it is copied to the other ports so that all segments of the LAN can see all packets.

Switches / Hubs

Networking hardware includes the physical devices facilitating the use of a computer network. Typically, networking hardware includes gateways, routers, network bridges, modems, wireless access points, networking cables, line drivers, switches, hubs, and repeaters. But it also includes hybrid network devices such as multilayer switches, protocol converters, bridge routers, proxy servers, firewalls, network address translators, multiplexers, network interface controllers, wireless network interface controllers, ISDN terminal adapters and other related hardware.