On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 05:55:23PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > > >Mornin'! > > > >On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:11:36AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > >>>Not sure what STP is > >> > >>Spanning Tree Protocol. Having the link go up and down would cause > >>the switch port to block traffic for a period of time. > > > >Of course, any reasonable administrator would configure > > > > interface FastEthernet0/1 > > spanning-tree portfast > > 'k, I know nothing about Cisco but do have access to change my configs > (knowing nothing tends to keep me from doing too much playing) ... what > does the above do, exactly?
It tells the switch that this port will never be anything but a leaf in the tree so STP does not need to re run before allowing packets to flow. If you do this and then create a loop with it, bad things happen, but cisco recommends it in general. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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