FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

Patrick M. Hausen hausen at punkt.de
Fri Aug 18 12:39:05 UTC 2006


Hi!

> 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):

> [ Cisco documentation ]

As always: it depends. In this case, what you imply by "loop detection".
If the loop is built using more Cisco equipment participating in STP,
then the loop will be detected and eventually broken by putting one
of the links in blocked state. IOS or CatOS bugs notwithstanding.

Regards,

Patrick M. Hausen
Leiter Netzwerke und Sicherheit
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