From: Aaron T. Woland (aaron.woland@ins.com)
Date: Fri Mar 31 2006 - 19:40:44 GMT-3
Port fast starts the port in Forwarding mode.
It's 802.1-w (rapid spanning tree) that shortens the timers, but still goes
through the stages.
-Aaron
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
James Ventre
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 5:31 PM
To: Guyler, Rik
Cc: 'ccielab@groupstudy.com'
Subject: Re: Spanning Tree Portfast
I believe that portfast does indeed go through the phases of STP
(blocking, learning and listening) but the timers are just very very short.
James
Guyler, Rik wrote:
> I believe portfast bypasses the blocking, learning and listening states
and
> goes immediately into the forwarding state. I think something like
> uplinkfast is more like what you're looking for, or in more current terms,
> Rapid-PVST.
>
> This was off the top of my head so please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Rik
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