Comments on: Spanning tree and NFS http://h4x0r5.com/~ryan/blog/archives/2006/04/06/spanning-tree-and-nfs/ The thoughts I am compelled to share, but without a reason to share them with anyone specifically. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:46:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.12-alpha by: Ping http://h4x0r5.com/~ryan/blog/archives/2006/04/06/spanning-tree-and-nfs/#comment-378 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 01:31:25 +0000 http://h4x0r5.com/~ryan/blog/archives/2006/04/06/spanning-tree-and-nfs/#comment-378 Thanks for the information, it was very helpful. Thanks for the information, it was very helpful.

]]> by: madmanx http://h4x0r5.com/~ryan/blog/archives/2006/04/06/spanning-tree-and-nfs/#comment-376 Sat, 08 Apr 2006 14:55:28 +0000 http://h4x0r5.com/~ryan/blog/archives/2006/04/06/spanning-tree-and-nfs/#comment-376 Bill is right, When you are working with switches and are using spanning tree its a good idea to enable port fast on ports that are going to have workstations or servers on them. That way you dont have to sit and wait the whole STP process before the port comes up. Bill is right, When you are working with switches and are using spanning tree its a good idea to enable port fast on ports that are going to have workstations or servers on them. That way you dont have to sit and wait the whole STP process before the port comes up.

]]> by: WildBill http://h4x0r5.com/~ryan/blog/archives/2006/04/06/spanning-tree-and-nfs/#comment-375 Sat, 08 Apr 2006 03:36:14 +0000 http://h4x0r5.com/~ryan/blog/archives/2006/04/06/spanning-tree-and-nfs/#comment-375 We've found that this can be somewhat mitigated (at least on Cisco gear) by setting the variable "spanning-tree-port-fast" (or something like that, I'm not a netadmin) on the switch. Beware though; if you set that on a trunked switch port you'll wind up with a really bad network (arp? don't remember) storm that'll nuke the whole network. Just use it on end-server ports. We’ve found that this can be somewhat mitigated (at least on Cisco gear) by setting the variable “spanning-tree-port-fast” (or something like that, I’m not a netadmin) on the switch.

Beware though; if you set that on a trunked switch port you’ll wind up with a really bad network (arp? don’t remember) storm that’ll nuke the whole network. Just use it on end-server ports.

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