From: John Murphy (jt.murphy@comcast.net)
Date: Sat Feb 26 2005 - 17:04:03 GMT-3
If it's an access port you can use the 'switchport host' macro which
should reduce your wait time to about 9 seconds. The macro will enable
portfast, and disable dtp and etherchannel on the port.
hth
jm
DaveW wrote:
>Narcis,
>
>If the question states that the port has to go through the "listening and
>learning" stage, I would eliminate the RSTP/MST option because 802.1w does
>not have a listening state. The 802.1d disabled, blocking, and listening
>states were replaced with a discarding state in 802.1w. I would go with
>802.1d and tweaking the timers.
>
>http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/473/146.html
>
>DAve
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <micsoniu@telus.net>
>To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 12:27 PM
>Subject: Spanning Tree
>
>
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Here is a question about spanning tree:
>>
>>"Configure port Fa0/x on SW1 so that it will transition to forwarding
>>
>>
>state
>
>
>>within 16 seconds. The port will have to go through all stages (listening
>>
>>
>and
>
>
>>learning)"
>>
>>Modifying the STP timers is an option (if at the other end there is a
>>
>>
>router).
>
>
>>According to the CCIE philosophy it has to be at least one other way to
>>accomplish this (MST/RSTP with point-to-point link option ?)
>>
>>Thank you
>>
>>Narcis
>>
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