Cisco 2950 Question

[rossco6]

I'm wondering if someone can answer a question for me, I'm sure it's fairly straight forward.

I'm looking at upgrading my LAN, currently all Digital repeaters with a 10 meg FDDI backbone. A number of the fibre repeaters I have are configured with redundant/fail over ports.

My question is, if I have a 2950 switch with 2 gbic modules each connected to fibre from different LAN segments, would they be redundant? If one of the fibre links were to break, would the other still find the route? What I'm aiming for is a bit of resilience in the LAN, currently I'm too dependant on a particular route of fibre.

My thinking is to have a gigabit backbone between 3550 switches forming a loop. I would then ideally like 2 fibre connections to each 2950 but coming from different 3550s.

Hope that's clear enough.

 

[jeter]

to be redundant you would have to setup a mesh topology with redundant paths through out the network. Then if a fiber is cut/broke it could find another route.

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