Think I'm missing something at the moment.

I thought the link we were talking about was between two 3548's (a resilient
link), the other one was a gigabit link.
Even so, how do we know where the root bridge is. Why couldn't it be the
3548 in question if they have not been configured otherwise?

Gaz

""Peter Slow""  wrote in message
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> nope. not if hes connecting to his root bridge. all of the interfaces on
the
> root bridge will be in forwarding state, so he should see the blocked
> interface on the 3548 switch.
>
> something is wrong.
>
> just remember that you dont plug things in and ~*BLIP*~ things start
> blocking.
> convergence takes like 50 seconds on a network set up with defaults.
>
> wait a few minutes bofore looking and see what you come up with.
> \
> -Peter Slow
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gareth Hinton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 9:34 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Spanning tree cost for redundant connection. [7:11623]
>
>
> Only one end of the link will show as blocking, the other will stay as
> forwarding even though no traffic can pass over the link.
> Check the other end to see if that is blocking.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gaz
>
> ""Ryan Ngai Hon Kong""  wrote in message
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I have about 18 C3548 switches with UTP cross-over as a redundant link
to
> > the core C6009 switches (1 unit) and the production link of LX & SX
GBIC.
> > When the production link is in operation, all the GBIC ports is in
> > forwarding
> > state. However when I attach the redundant UTP cable at 1 C3548 to the
> > another
> > C3548 (cascade), I wonder why they are still in forwarding state. Here's
a
> > basic
> > layout.
> >
> > C3548    \      / C3548
> >   (utp) |      \ /   | (utp)
> > C3548 ---- C6009 ----- C3548
> >   (utp) |      /       \   | (utp)
> > C3548    /    \ C3548
> >
> > How do I set the cascading port (as a redundant link) into blocking
state?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ryan




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