From: Alexei Monastyrnyi (alexeim@orcsoftware.com)
Date: Thu Jun 21 2007 - 05:11:41 ART
yes, I also found this approach useful some time ago and turned to it.
A.
on 6/21/2007 9:49 AM Gary Duncanson wrote:
> 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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