FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

[Jo Rhett]

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)

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Jo Rhett
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