From: Alex (alex.arseniev@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2006 - 13:12:16 GMT-3
Did You enable "spanning-tree portfast" on Your switch ports?
Regards
Alex
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Bellward" <wbellward@gmail.com>
To: "Cisco certification" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 3:19 PM
Subject: Delaying an Ethernet Port?
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I have an interesting problem where I have an analogue signal coming in
> which is processed by a MUX and encoder; it is a live broadcast system.
> The
> MUX and encoder have resilient Ethernet ports which are patched into two
> separate switches both going back to a resilient core. If one of the
> switches reboots of fails the system fails over nicely and broadcasting
> continues. The problem arises when the switches starts to come back
> online,
> the mux and encoder fail back over as soon as they see a physical link,
> the
> switch isn't ready to process packets for another 3 minutes, as you can
> guess we lose the live broadcast and a lot of people get upset. The
> problem
> doesn't occur if we use hubs instead of switches as they are dumb and
> process as soon as they become live. Is they anyway of delaying the switch
> Ethernet port until it is ready to process packets, i don't really want to
> use hubs as this limits my monitoring options.
>
>
>
> Many Thanks,
>
>
>
> Wayne
>
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