[c-nsp] MST and Uplinkfast

[David Hughes]

Hi

Sorry for the slow response.  Up to my neck with the AusNOG conference.

Anyway, as others have mentioned, you need to run portfast on your  
edge ports.


Thanks

David
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On 27/08/2009, at 5:06 PM, Andy Saykao wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Thanks for the reply...
>
> With MST deployed across our network now, the access layer switches  
> take
> 20-30seconds before they start switching traffic via the redundant  
> link.
> Prior to this we were using PVST+ and with uplinkfast enabled on these
> access layer switches, once the primary link failed, the redundant
> linked kicked in straight away (drop one packet). Is MST suppose to
> switch traffic almost instantly or is this 20-30sec delay a "normal"
> thing???