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RE: Spanning Trees & Apple Talk with Asante Swithces

Spanning tree is not the problem in fact.
What you need to enable is portfast, which allows the macs (and IPX traffic)
to begin using the port as soon as you start the computer. Otherwise it
takes about 45 seconds for the switch to allow traffic and operate properly.
Depending on the product you are using of course. I'd recommend leaving
spanning tree on and enabling portfast. On the higher end cisco core
switches you might also have to disable trunking and channeling. I'm not
familiar with the Asante and whether or not they have this capability also.
Kevin Ryan


Network Coordinator
Administrative Services
NERIC
Plattsburgh City

-----Original Message-----
From: email@hidden
[mailto:email@hidden]On Behalf Of Andrew Vokes
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 8:47 AM
To: email@hidden
Cc: email@hidden
Subject: Spanning Trees & Apple Talk with Asante Swithces


Hi All

Now that we are using Netbooted and Mac Managed systems at our office,
we have noticed lag and poorer network speed. So we have been trying to
speed up our network. One thing we came across was that "Spanning
Trees" on our Asante Switches can interfere with Apple Talk but turning
the spanning tree off may crash the network of any switches are cross
connected (after checking none appear to be).

Before we try turning the spanning trees off, I thought I see if anyone
else has tried this and see if it is a good or bad thing to do.

thanks,

Andrew Vokes
Taxi Advertising
Toronto Canada
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