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[Ben]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Brian Long wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 22:01 +0000, Philip Rowlands wrote:
>
>> Do spanning-tree links appear "up" to the host, before the switch
>> relents and starts to forward? If not, perhaps it's possible to
>> programmatically delay in a %pre script.
>
> Yes, the link is up, but the switch will not forward packets until the
> spanning tree calculation is complete.

You could try turning on 'portfast' on the port.  This should allow packet 
flow during the calculation period.

Ben
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