You are experiencing the Spanning Tree process, which blocks ports
temporarily while it determines if you just have hosts connected to that
port or if you are connecting additional switches. This process takes
about 30 seconds. If you want to turn this off on a port-by-port basis
you need to enable a feature called PortFast. I don't know the exact
syntax on a 6500 so you'll have to check into that.
HTH,
John
>>> "Larry Ogun-Banjo" 6/12/01 9:29:53 AM
>>>
We have just installed some new catalyst switches 650x and 69xx. I
have
noticed
that whenever I connected with a fluke to test connectivity on the
ports, it
takes approximately 20 secs to get its first contact with another
device. I'm
aware the switch port needs to learn the mac address etc but I would
not have
thought it would take so long. Are there any commands that would
speedup the
network discovery or is this normal behaviour on a new port?
Pardon this trivial question but it would help.
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