em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Mornin'!

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:11:36AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:

> >Not sure what STP is
> 
> Spanning Tree Protocol.  Having the link go up and down would cause 
> the switch port to block traffic for a period of time.

Of course, any reasonable administrator would configure

	interface FastEthernet0/1
	 spanning-tree portfast

for all ports connected to hosts. (shown syntax is Cisco's).

Regards,
Patrick
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