Did I connect these switches according to best practices?

[Fredtx]

@scottalanmiller I understand what you mean by not getting advice from vendors. However, maybe there's some "good" information that would go into details concerning best practices when connected switches together. For instance, I've seen your posts where you said you learned some good concepts while studying for the mcsa back in the 90's.

I think I've grasped the concept here though. You have a core switch, where you plug in your other switches, which those switches will have hosts connected together. Jared put a good example of what good practices should look like. A picture is worth a thousand words, right? LOL

[1337]

The edgerouter would sit where it says Internet.

Backbone switch is also called core switch.
Edge switch is also called access switch. That's where you would have PoE.

What you did was kind of like daisy chaining switches, which is in general a bad idea. But wouldn't really matter in a very small network.

[scottalanmiller]

@fredtx said in Did I connect these switches according to best practices?:

For instance, I've seen your posts where you said you learned some good concepts while studying for the mcsa MCSE back in the 90's.

That's true. But mostly I learned about the parts that weren't related to them, and mostly from third party sourced like Ed Tittle. Microsoft's own materials weren't bad, but not on par with good educators.