Turn debugging on for spanning tree. See what results you get. ""John Neiberger"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Our LAN people have worked on it a lot and have never found a resolution > to the Dell NIC issue. > > I'm starting not to trust the output of the 'show spantree' command > because it's showing conflicting information. In addition, there are > other ports that don't show up in the output that still appear to be > running STP. I've decided to quit worrying about it and I'll reboot it > later. In the interim we've found another solution for the few users > with Dell PCs. > > Thanks, > John > > >>> Daniel Cotts 7/29/02 9:55:17 AM >>> > With portfast disabled how long does it take for an interface to come > on > line? Can you test to see if it is sending BPDUs out those interfaces? > I'm > wondering if in fact spanning tree is disabled but "forwarding" is just > how > a connected port is identified. > I'm not familiar with the 2980. Is each port explicitly an access port > or a > trunk port as in the 2924XL or can a user port also have trunking > preferences like the 5500s? (set trunk auto/desireable/off/etc) On set > based > switches best to turn trunking off on user interfaces. > Any way to attack the problem from the Dell side? Drivers? 3rd party > NIC? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: John Neiberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 9:52 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Can't Disable Spanning Tree on 2980G [7:50009] > > > > > > I have an interesting problem that I'm not able to resolve. On a > > particular 2980G I need to completely disable spanning tree. After > > issuing the command 'set spantree disable all' I would expect > > not to see > > any ports participating in STP. However, look at this: > > > > SCORP0201-A> (enable) show spantree > > VLAN 1 > > Spanning tree disabled > > > > Bridge ID MAC ADDR 00-08-e2-b3-8c-00 > > Bridge ID Priority 32768 > > Bridge Max Age 20 sec Hello Time 2 sec Forward Delay 15 sec > > > > Port Vlan Port-State Cost Prio Portfast > > Channel_id > > ------------------------ ---- ------------- --------- ---- -------- > > ---------- > > 3/1 1 not-connected 100 32 > > disabled 0 > > > > 3/2 1 not-connected 100 32 > > disabled 0 > > > > 3/3 1 forwarding 100 32 > > disabled 0 > > > > 3/4 1 forwarding 100 32 > > disabled 0 > > > > 3/5 1 not-connected 100 32 > > disabled 0 > > > > 3/6 1 not-connected 100 32 > > disabled 0 > > > > 3/7 1 not-connected 100 32 > > disabled 0 > > > > 3/8 1 not-connected 100 32 > > disabled 0 > > > > 3/9 1 forwarding 100 32 > > disabled 0 > > > > 3/10 1 forwarding 100 32 > > disabled 0 > > > > 3/11 1 not-connected 100 32 > > disabled 0 > > > > 3/12 1 not-connected 100 32 > > disabled 0 > > > > 3/13 1 not-connected 100 32 > > disabled 0 > > > > 3/14 1 not-connected 100 32 > > disabled 0 > > > > --More-- > > > > Initially it says that STP on VLAN1 is disabled, but then goes on to > > show several ports in VLAN 1 that are still running spanning > > tree. STP > > was successfully disabled on the other VLANs but I just can't get > this > > to go away and we really need to get this done thanks to another > > annoying issue that no one has resolved yet. > > > > We have certain Dell machines that will BSOD if the network isn't > > immediately available. STP portfast isn't fast enough so I've been > > disabling STP altogether. > > > > Any thoughts on this? Am I missing something very obvious? I've > > checked CCO and there appears to be no STP-related bugs on the 2948. > > > Unfortunately, they don't have separate info for the 2980G. > > > > Thanks, > > John > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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