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Port negotiation

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wellerw

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Hi,

I have a Cisco Catalyst 2950.

Is there any way of speeding up the time it takes for the connection to go green when attaching a NIC to it?

IT seems to be on orange for ages before finally going active.

Thanks.
 
Hi

Set the spanning tree to use portfast, it is in the help.

Only do this on ports connected to PCs, NOT to ports where other switches are connected.



"The most powerful command you will ever use is rtfm"
EB
 
on the interfaces put in " switchport host" , this will shut off channelling, trunking, and turn on portfast . You can use the interface range command to apply it to all interfaces that are "not" connected to other networking gear , user ports only.
 
Thanks alot!.

I Have now enabled portfast and it activates loads quicker!

cheers
 
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