From: Scott Morris (smorris@ipexpert.com)
Date: Thu Jan 10 2008 - 02:46:44 ARST
If you have an access-port with no BPDU's (e.g. portfast) then you are
correct that it's just listening + learning. if you aren't doing portfast
and it's the first time the port is coming online, it will be blocking (20
sec) + listening + learning. Maxage has nothing to do with this part
(although it too equals 20 seconds, so I can understand the confusion)
Perspective. It's all about perspective.
HTH,
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
wim.depauw@getronics.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 2:09 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Tuning STP timers : IPexpert versus IE
Hi,
When you get the following question :
- Configre your switch so that the hosts come online in 34 sec
I would configure it with the following command
- spanning-tree vlan X forward-time 17 sec
I did a test with this command and it seems to work , but in the ipexpert v9
lab 40 they configure it like this :
spanning-tree vlan X forward-time 7 sec , I presume they use also the
max-age timer so then the sum will be 34 sec .
BUT
for a normal access-port with portfast configured you will not send any BPDU
so you shouldn't count the max-age timer.
I saw an example in the IE workbook and they configure it on my way
I was wondering if the guru's don't come the same solution how would the
would-like-to-be CCIE's find the correct solution :-))
Any opinions ??
PS : A second question , do I need to calculate in this time also the hello
time or is this not necessary ?
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