82 APPENDIX B: NETWORK CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES
Enhancing the
Performance of Your
Network
Figure 23 shows how you can set your network up to enhance its
performance.
All ports are auto-negotiating and will therefore pass data across the
network at the optimum available speed and duplex mode. Flow control
will help avoid packet loss during periods of network congestion. A
Gigabit Ethernet backbone is set up between the Switch 3824 and each
Switch in the workgroups to increase the bandwidth, and therefore the
overall network performance.
Figure 23 Network set up to enhance performance
Endstations on
10/100 Mbps connections
Endstations on
10/100 Mbps connections
Stack of four Switch 4200 units
1000 Mbps
100 Mbps
Switch 3824
Stack of two Switch 4200 units
Servers on 1000 Mbps
connections with
aggregated links set up
Production Workgroups
Administrative Workgroups
1000 Mbps with
aggregated links
set up
1000 Mbps with
aggregated links
set up
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