daisychaining phones, bad idea Re: [Asterisk-Users] Survey: Grandstream improvements.........

[John Brown (CV)]

Hub != switch   With a repeater (ergo hub) you have the 543 rule
to worry about.  with a bridge (ergo a switch) you don't

the problem with daisy chaining the phones is that you are now
back to old 10base2 type networks.  one phone breaks, powers off,
unplugs etc, and the downstream phones are isolated.


On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:35:21PM +0200, rnc Info Lists wrote:
> Michael,
> How would you be able to connect all phones in a room to one socket?  The
> Ethernet specificiation has a limit to the number of hubs/switches that
> can be inline.  (or at least it used to).  The only way I can see to
> connect all phones to one socket would be to daisy chain them.  This would
> not be a good solution since:
> - all phones would use the same 10mbps segment, chances for collisions
>   would be high
> - rules of Ethernet would be violated so even if it did work it may stop
>   at any point with some other normally minor change.
> 
> Robert
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