Hi Guys
As i seem especially talented as asking stupid / newbie questions.. I hope you dont mind another!
I volunteer for a local organisation of which I have recently put in a 2nd hand server (hp ML360 g7 i think) running windows server 2012 r2 - all seems to be going swimmingly well currently (considering how large a learning curve it was to set up AD etc) . As the building is split into 2 sections (POS terminals one side / office pcs and server the other) i have had 2x cat6 cables run between the buildings with the idea of 'trunking' 2 switches together.
I have a single tp link sg1016de next to the server and have the 2 Ethernet ports teamed in windows to present a single IP the switch then has these 2 ports 'trunked'
I am about to add another switch (same switch) to put in the POS area so i can have all the pos terminals and 1 pc going into this. I then want to use the 2 cables (between the buildings) to connect the 2 switches together, ideally trunking the 2 together to provide better multi access speed etc.
Do i have to set up port trunking on both switches? or is it just one and the other switch will configure itself? Documentation is a bit vague and tends to deal with switch to PC rather than switch to switch.
As i seem especially talented as asking stupid / newbie questions.. I hope you dont mind another!
I volunteer for a local organisation of which I have recently put in a 2nd hand server (hp ML360 g7 i think) running windows server 2012 r2 - all seems to be going swimmingly well currently (considering how large a learning curve it was to set up AD etc) . As the building is split into 2 sections (POS terminals one side / office pcs and server the other) i have had 2x cat6 cables run between the buildings with the idea of 'trunking' 2 switches together.
I have a single tp link sg1016de next to the server and have the 2 Ethernet ports teamed in windows to present a single IP the switch then has these 2 ports 'trunked'
I am about to add another switch (same switch) to put in the POS area so i can have all the pos terminals and 1 pc going into this. I then want to use the 2 cables (between the buildings) to connect the 2 switches together, ideally trunking the 2 together to provide better multi access speed etc.
Do i have to set up port trunking on both switches? or is it just one and the other switch will configure itself? Documentation is a bit vague and tends to deal with switch to PC rather than switch to switch.