Thanks for clarifying that.
cheers
Colin
At 06:16 PM 6/12/01 +0200, Reinhold Fischer wrote:
>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]
>> Network Group
>> Information Systems Division
>> University College London
>> Gower Street Phone: 020 7679-2572
>> London WC1E 6BT
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