13 Nov
1999
13 Nov
'99
11:13 p.m.
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Oliver Krause wrote:
have you set the switch-ports the filer is attached to "port fast enabled"? Without setting it on the switch tries to build its spanning tree if you plugin a cable.
Yes, but the recalculation is done when link is detected (i.e., when the cable is physically plugged back in), not when packets start flowing over it. I waited long enough (i.e., over 1 minute) after plugging cables back in before inducing a failover or a giveback. Failover always happens instantaneously, but giveback always takes 15+ seconds before I start seeing traffic. I'll have to try out more combinations in the lab next week.
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Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"