[c-nsp] STP funnies - moving from forwarding to forwarding

Marko Milivojevic markom at pangalactic.net
Wed May 10 15:41:32 EDT 2006


 > all more or less look like this:
 > [...]
 > spanning-tree portfast

Just a guess...

Portfast bypasses all STP states and immediately goes into forwarding. When 
the port is down, technically, it's not blocking (I could be mistaken). When 
the port comes up, STP state moves from the current state to forwarding. 
Internal state could as well be forwarding.


Marko.



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