From: Mujeeb Sarwar (mujeebsarwar@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Dec 22 2008 - 17:57:02 ARST
Hi Lloyd,
Portfast doesn't disable spanning-tree instead it bypass the listening &
learning states. So in this case port would move directly into
forwarding state from blocking.
Regards,
Mujeeb
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Lloyd Ardoin <Lloyd@thewizkid.biz> wrote:
> Hi GS,
>
> I was doing a Cisco ASET lab yesterday and came across a switching task
> that
> basically said that hosts were connected to ports fa0/12 - 14 in VLAN 13
> and
> they wanted you to configure the ports in such a way to have them come up
> as
> quickly as possible without turning off spanning-tree. My solution was to
> reduce the timers for VLAN 13 to their minimums but the solution from Cisco
> was to use the portfast command. I was under the impression that when you
> applied the portfast command to a switchport it disabled spanning-tree for
> that port. Is this a mis-understanding on my part?
>
> thanks,
> Lloyd
>
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