Chaining TL-SG108 Switches Not Working As Expected
Are the TL-SG108 switches supposed to work when chained together? I thought you can chain unmanaged switches. I ran out of ports and purchased another TL-SG108 8 port switch to chain of my existing one. Both are the same model and HW version 6.6 and work fine individually, i.e., if I connect the router/AP directly to the switch, all devices get the proper DHCP-assigned IP and connect to the network and internet. However, if I chain the switches, the devices connected to the switch that is chained (connected to the switch that is directly off of the router/AP) then they do NOT get a DHCP-assigned IP and cannot see the network nor the internet (see rough drawing below).
I drew up a quick-n-dirty architecture to show how I have the setup. Devices 1-6 are fine and connect to the network/internet. Devices 7-9 do NOT see the network. I have tried different cables to make sure it wasn't the issue between the switches so that's not part of the problem. Devices 7-9 get some funky IPs like 254.x.x.x and the wrong subnet like 255.255.0.0, etc. Similar to how the network behaves on a Windows computer, for example, when no actual connection exists.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. The setup seems pretty straightforward but not sure if I need a different type of cable to chain them? I recall, in the old days, we used to use "crossover" cables (iirc) to do certain kind of chaining but I think that went out a long time ago.