Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:56:27 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> Cc: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, Atanas <atanas@asd.aplus.net>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Michael Vince <mv@thebeastie.org> Subject: Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ... Message-ID: <20060710215627.GA3507@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060710175447.A1799@ganymede.hub.org> References: <44AEB0CB.5060102@asd.aplus.net> <20060707181750.O1171@ganymede.hub.org> <20060707223609.N60542@fledge.watson.org> <20060708033254.GB87930@cdnetworks.co.kr> <20060708172001.GB77281@ip.net.ua> <6.2.3.4.0.20060709234941.12531860@64.7.153.2> <20060710010540.G1799@ganymede.hub.org> <6.2.3.4.0.20060710001040.125441e0@64.7.153.2> <20060710070951.GA23181@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <20060710175447.A1799@ganymede.hub.org>
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--FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 05:55:23PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: >=20 > >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 >=20 > 'k, I know nothing about Cisco but do have access to change my configs=20 > (knowing nothing tends to keep me from doing too much playing) ... what= =20 > does the above do, exactly? It tells the switch that this port will never be anything but a leaf in the tree so STP does not need to re run before allowing packets to flow. If you do this and then create a loop with it, bad things happen, but cisco recommends it in general. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEss0KXY6L6fI4GtQRAn0rAJ97jDkY9wFnJjJH+ebaXPbA8rAk3QCgz7Vk 0ZkEcd5FlLSVcBkDe+oEBc8= =YBIW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L--
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