On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 07:06, Andy Ciordia wrote: > Scott Mewett wrote: > > Brians on the right track with regard to port-fast. > > What you want to enable there is on a per port basis. > > It's not a general spanning tree config. > > I mention this because your earlier mail only showed some general > > spanning tree settings. > > > Kickstart then resets the interface, which make the interface leave the > > bridge, and thus when it reconnects the switch port goes back to > > blocking mode and goes through the cycle again. > > You know I hadn't thought of that and I'll have to go back and look but > you're probably right. If its flushing that port its going to take a > chunk of seconds before it accepts that link again. > > > Also notice the warning it gave. So you don't want to plug in a switch > > to that port or it could cause problems. To protect against that > > versions of CatOS 5.4.1 have a feature called BPDU Guard. If you enable > > this then the port will get disabled if it detects the device being > > connected is running spanning tree. You can control how long it will > > disable for as well. > > Right now the machine thats being tested is hooked into the Cat5k but > the array I'm will be pushing the work to has 100unmanaged switch > connect into the 5k.. I'm curious if there will be a problem there.. > Since the Cat5k isn't opening a new port it might just breeze on > through. That'd be refreshing ;) That's what would happen. Since the uplink port on your unmanaged switch does change state, the port wouldn't get shut down. As a result the your kickstart should proceed along without stopping. Scott > > I need to develop my other KS's for the other roles in that rack and see > what happens. > > And thanks go to Philip Rowlands as well. Nice to see that patch got > wrapped already into U2, I don't have an install tree for that atm but I > might consider it. :) > > -a > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
