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At the moment we have 12 switches of the type TP-LINK TL-SG1024DE. These switches are connected in serie now, which means when one in the middle goes down that all the others in the chain will loose Internet access.

I want to connect the switches in MESH so that they are redundant and the network will remain working except for the downed switch.

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When I connected the network to the MESH topology I got the problem that the whole network went down. This was probably the cause of looping.

How can I configure the TP-LINK switches to enable the topology MESH?

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In order to be able to use layer-2 switched network while having loops, you need to enable STP protocol (Spanning Tree Protocol).

If your switches don't support such protocol, it is not possible to configure your network by introducing any loop.

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