Batch enable Fast Start

[ComputerX]

Friends,

Is there a way to enable Fast Start on (almost) all ports of my 3300 and 1100 switches? I really don't want to do every port by hand but I'm not thrilled about running spanning tree without it.

Does the 3300 have a plain command line like cisco? If so can I dump the config to a text file, edit it, and dump it back? Is there a better way?

I have skimmed the manual several times and not found what I am looking for.

I don't have a huge network. Just three three switch stacks and a half dozen other switches. Not enough for a real managed evnironment but too many to do by hand.

I am running Network Supervisor in demo mode.

Thanks,

Dan

 

[ADB100]

I never found a way of doing this with my 1100 & 3300's. Its a bit of a poor omisison on 3Com's part really - but the whole command-line interface isn't good. I think 3Com went for the web-based GUI but forgot that people actually use STP.
I did it all by hand - it doesn't take that long, you can enter nearly the whole command in one line:

br po stpf 4 en

If you use hyperterminal you can change the ASCII settings for the connection to pause after each line (properties, settings, ASCII setup) and then Notepad the config beforehand. I set the line delay to 1000 milliseconds and the character delay to 10 milliseconds and then paste the following in:

br port stpfast 1 en
br port stpfast 2 en
br port stpfast 3 en
br port stpfast 4 en
br port stpfast 5 en
etc

Andy