From: John Murphy (john.murphy@charter.net)
Date: Sun Feb 27 2005 - 01:32:12 GMT-3
Duh, I saw the "listening and learning" but my brain just skipped right
over it.... hope I don't do that in the lab. Thanks Balaji.
Balaji Siva wrote:
>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:
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>>
>>>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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