RE: catalyst 2900 XL ipx appletalk ....vs Cat5K

From: aiqun hu (huaq@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 13:19:00 GMT-3


   
Is this the way to disable the spanning tree on specific port? How to
disable spanning on cat 5K? Just read the Cisco Document CD. By default,
spanning tree is enabled for all the Vlans.

Thanks

>From: "Asbjorn Hojmark" <Asbjorn@Hojmark.ORG>
>Reply-To: "Asbjorn Hojmark" <Asbjorn@Hojmark.ORG>
>To: "'David FAHED'" <dfahed@outremer.com>
>CC: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>Subject: RE: catalyst 2900 XL ipx appletalk ....
>Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:48:43 +0200
>
> > Maybe it's a stupid question. But I have problem to switch
> > IPX and Appletalk with a catalyst 2900 XL (entreprise
> > version). The config is the default config.
>
>Default config is to run full spanning tree on all ports.
>This tends to kill AppleTalk, IPX (GetNearestServer) and
>DHCP if you're using relatively fast machines.
>
>Try 'spanning-tree portfast' in interface config mode to
>allow the switch to take the port directly to forwarding
>in stead of going through listening and learning.
>
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