Not quite correct. PortFast does not disable STP. It puts a port initially
into 'Forwarding' state and then watches if loops occur. If for some reason
the port is forced into 'Blocking' state and later needs to return to the
'Forwarding' state, it has to go through the 'Listening' and 'Learning'
phases.
hth
Reinhold
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Colin Byelong wrote:
> you should enable portfast (diasbles stp)
> this should speed things up
>
> Cheers
>
> Colin
>
>
>
>
> At 11:29 AM 6/12/01 -0400, Larry Ogun-Banjo wrote:
> >We have just installed some new catalyst switches 650x and 69xx. I have
> >noticed
> >that whenever I connected with a fluke to test connectivity on the ports,
it
> >takes approximately 20 secs to get its first contact with another device.
> I'm
> >aware the switch port needs to learn the mac address etc but I would not
> have
> >thought it would take so long. Are there any commands that would speedup
the
> >network discovery or is this normal behaviour on a new port?
> >Pardon this trivial question but it would help.
> Colin Byelong Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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