From: EDL (r.s.cciestudy@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2007 - 18:01:28 ART
Hi Scott,
As I use rack rental service. There are unspecified links(trunk ports)
connected to each other. The lab doesn't tell you to use it or not. I
personally like to shut them down. But it does take some time to discover
the neighbor relationship between all the switches and routers. And Carlos
is right, one should pay attention on the default behavior on 3560 and 3550.
Ed
On 12/3/07, Scott Vermillion <scott_ccie_list@it-ag.com> wrote:
>
> I'm gonna offer a different view on this one guys. Using the interface
> range command, shutting ports is not terribly time consuming. I
> personally
> don't want any STP BPDUs or anything else for that matter flying around my
> network. In fact, I start each and every practice lab with every single
> switchport shut (except the ones that tie to routers) and then I enable
> them
> as I configure. I can't possibly see this as a measurable impact on your
> overall time management strategy, and it seems to me it potentially save
> you
> from some confusion (which could impact your overall time management
> strategy).
>
> I'm surprised everyone's saying "no" on this one?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Guyler, Rik
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 7:09 AM
> To: Frederick Chan; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: shutdown unrelated switch ports
>
> Why would you take the time to do this if it isn't a requirement? I
> can't see any benefit in doing this since an unused port is just
> that...unused, so it won't interfere with anything. In production maybe
> you would do this (we do in my network) but I wouldn't do this in your
> lab.
>
> Rik
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Frederick Chan
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 1:16 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: shutdown unrelated switch ports
>
> Hi group,
>
> Is it good to shutdown unrelated switch ports in the lab?
>
> Thanks,
> FC
>
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