From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 18 12:39:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8705E16A4DF for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:39:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hausen@punkt.de) Received: from kagate.punkt.de (kagate.punkt.de [217.29.33.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DF9C43D4C for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:39:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hausen@punkt.de) Received: from hugo10.ka.punkt.de (hugo10.ka.punkt.de [10.0.0.110]) by kagate1.punkt.de with ESMTP id k7ICd34s012615 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:39:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hugo10.ka.punkt.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hugo10.ka.punkt.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k7ICd2a9022713; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:39:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ry93@hugo10.ka.punkt.de) Received: (from ry93@localhost) by hugo10.ka.punkt.de (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id k7ICd2qC022712; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:39:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ry93) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:39:02 +0200 From: "Patrick M. Hausen" To: Martin Horcicka Message-ID: <20060818123902.GD21585@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> References: <44E51C93.5090000@umn.edu> <20060818021643.GA74158@dan.emsphone.com> <437bc1590608180151m1017a50cg31c7817d1aeb0dfe@mail.gmail.com> <20060818092255.GD55509@cdnetworks.co.kr> <437bc1590608180423n513b58c1yd978b2fcf8997ef6@mail.gmail.com> <20060818113305.GF86440@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <437bc1590608180500y7e99ad02p329ffae629342d44@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <437bc1590608180500y7e99ad02p329ffae629342d44@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Cc: pyunyh@gmail.com, Dan Nelson , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Alan Amesbury Subject: Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:39:05 -0000 Hi! > This is a little off-topic (and I'm no Cisco specialist) but I'm > afraid that the loop detection won't happen with portfast. Cisco.com > says (the first page that Google gave me): > [ Cisco documentation ] As always: it depends. In this case, what you imply by "loop detection". If the loop is built using more Cisco equipment participating in STP, then the loop will be detected and eventually broken by putting one of the links in blocked state. IOS or CatOS bugs notwithstanding. Regards, Patrick M. Hausen Leiter Netzwerke und Sicherheit -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Vorholzstr. 25 Tel. 0721 9109 -0 Fax: -100 76137 Karlsruhe http://punkt.de