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HO do i set up a ring topology with Ubiquiti switches (Ubiquiti UniFi Switch US-48-750W)

Need to set up a ring topology using ubiquiti switches. The area to be covered requires about 400ft between each switch. How do i configur the switched to do this ?
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TimotiSt

8/22/2022 - Mon
ArneLovius

What do you mean by a ring topology of switches ?

To get 400Ft between switches, you should be using Fibre as the max run length on Copper is 328 ft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_6_cable
TimotiSt

Cabling considerations aside, if you want to set up something like this
[sw1]------[sw2]----[router/fw]
  |          |
  |          |
  |          |
[sw3]------[sw4]

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you can cable up the switches using the SFP ports for fiber or let's say port 47-48 for copper (if within 100m).
Spanning tree will disable one link to temporarily break the loop, if anyone disconnects/cuts a cable spanning tree will re-enable it and the show goes on.
I'd set it up for RSTP protocol, make the switch closest to the router/firewall the root of the spanning tree (set priority to 0).

Some switches provide cool ethernet ring protection protocols instead of spanning tree, but those are typically for carrier metro-ethernet deployments.
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I want to use Fiber between the switches as the distance does not permit copper...
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TimotiSt

In that case do use the SFP modules on the switch.
I'd go with multimode fiber and 1000Base-SX optics, the official Ubiquiti one is UF-MM-1G, but according to their docs they do work with pretty much anything you have on hand:
UniFi - USW: Which SFP Modules Can be Used
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great!.....Also wanted to know that is this is possible ..... on the main / master switch that would be part of the ring in which 2 of the SFP ports will be occupied a part of the ring topology ..... can i also add  an additional switch to each of he 2 other SFP ports ?  If so would the master switch see all the switches as one network  ?
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