From: Gary Duncanson (gary.duncanson@googlemail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 21 2007 - 04:49:35 ART
Same in my environment for the same reasons.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Huizinga, Rene" <rhuizinga@upcbroadband.com>
To: "'Jeffrey Fry'" <Jeff@FryGuy.Net>; "Julio Carrasco"
<julio.carrasco@ya.com>; "mihai" <mihai@ngnpath.com>; "Cisco certification"
<ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 2:33 AM
Subject: RE: Unsused ports on switches.
> 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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