RE: portfast

From: Stefan.Gasteiger@Gendorf.de
Date: Sun Jul 08 2001 - 08:41:03 EDT

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Warner [mailto:warner@cats.UCSC.EDU]
> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 12:23 AM
> To: bri@sonicboom.org; noise@cow.org
> Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net; techiedom@yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: portfast

[..]
> Your intention that any particular port only goes to a "single host"
> can be blunted by a visit to the Microwarehouse catalog. Any user
> can show up with a repeater and go into the connectivity business.

I agree. We had an user that was curious what would when connecting
to ports with a cross cable. STP was disabled on these ports (hey,
they're only user ports). Ouch.

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Stefan Gasteiger
E-Mail: Stefan.Gasteiger@gendorf.de

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