From: Balaji Siva (bsivasub@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Feb 26 2005 - 18:26:57 GMT-3
Portfast is not an option as it jumps from blocking directly to
forwarding. I think timer is probably the one way to have "all the
states" afaik
Thanks
Balaji
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:04:03 -0500, John Murphy <jt.murphy@comcast.net> wrote:
> 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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