On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Brian Long wrote:
On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 22:01 +0000, Philip Rowlands wrote:
Do spanning-tree links appear "up" to the host, before the switch
relents and starts to forward? If not, perhaps it's possible to
programmatically delay in a %pre script.
Yes, the link is up, but the switch will not forward packets until the
spanning tree calculation is complete.
You could try turning on 'portfast' on the port. This should allow packet
flow during the calculation period.
Ben
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