em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

[User Freebsd]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:

> 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

'k, I know nothing about Cisco but do have access to change my configs 
(knowing nothing tends to keep me from doing too much playing) ... what 
does the above do, exactly?

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