On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:00:06PM +0200, Martin Horcicka wrote: > This is a little off-topic (and I'm no Cisco specialist) but I'm > afraid that the loop detection won't happen with portfast. Cisco.com > says (the first page that Google gave me): I've deleted the cisco verbage for brevity, but that doesn't mean loops won't be detected. It means that it will behave like any STP port in forwarding state -- forward packets until it detects a loop.
The "problem" is that if you were to link the networks together using portfast ports then it could take 5-20 seconds for the switch to get a clue. (I've never seen it take longer if enough traffic to create a problem was transiting the port) -- Jo Rhett senior geek SVcolo : Silicon Valley Colocation _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
