it'll speed things upp, but it sure as hell will NOT disable STP on that
interface.
Peter Slow, CCNP Voice Specialist
Network Engineer
Planetary Networks
----- Original Message -----
From: Colin Byelong
To:
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: fao: Catalyst Gurus [7:8177]
> you should enable portfast (diasbles stp)
> this should speed things up
>
> Cheers
>
> Colin
>
>
>
>
> At 11:29 AM 6/12/01 -0400, Larry Ogun-Banjo wrote:
> >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.
> Colin Byelong Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Network Group
> Information Systems Division
> University College London
> Gower Street Phone: 020 7679-2572
> London WC1E 6BT
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