From: Huizinga, Rene (rhuizinga@upcbroadband.com)
Date: Wed Jun 20 2007 - 22:33:20 ART
Hi Guys,
I do the same, but (maybe interesting) in production-environments 2 things
additionally, picked up from an previous employer with a very very large
LAN.
Every production-switch has a 'DROP-VLAN' (like I call it, usually number
999 :) ), layer-2 only, not on any trunk, etc. All ports unused will be
described with something like '*** Not-Used ***' and in addition placed into
vlan 999. Then should a 'shut' have been forgotten, at least the port will
remain without connectivity. Also, this way the admin is forced to manually
configure the appropriate vlan-assignment, reducing the chance of making
mistakes there...
OK, it is a bit more work, but I see it as best practice. Worked flawless so
far in my current and previous environments.
Cya
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Jeffrey Fry
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 3:01 AM
To: Julio Carrasco; mihai; Cisco certification
Subject: RE: Unsused ports on switches.
Same thing here, if they are not used we shut them down.
More secure as well, nobody can just plug into the network.
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Julio Carrasco
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 8:00 PM
To: mihai; Cisco certification
Subject: Re: Unsused ports on switches.
Hi Mihai,
I usually prefer to shutdown the ports that I am not using, for me its
better, so just the ports you are using participate in different processes
(ie. spanning - tree )
----- Original Message -----
From: "mihai" <mihai@ngnpath.com>
To: "Cisco certification" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 1:04 AM
Subject: Unsused ports on switches.
> Hi,
>
> Newbie question here - just wondering what would be best practice with
> regards to the unused ports between switches.
>
> There are many workbooks out there were we get labs which don't use
all
> the ports between the switches.
>
> Do u guys shutdown the ones which are not used in that particular lab?
>
> shut all interfaces and start configuring is what i do on my rack @
home
> ... is this what we should do in the real lab?
>
> Thx.
>
>
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