Re: Tuning STP timers : IPexpert versus IE

From: Luan Nguyen (luan.m.nguyen@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 10 2008 - 03:02:57 ARST


They fat-fingered the 1?
PS=not necessary.

-lmn

On Jan 9, 2008 2:08 PM, <wim.depauw@getronics.com> wrote:

> 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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