Commiting a sequence of changes at once

[vbahuse]

I was under the impression that any commands entered at the configuration terminal prompt would not take effect until the CTRL-z sequence was entered, however my testing of this did not work as I expected.

How / Can a series of changes be made to the switch all at once? For example if I want to have a series of ip route statements go into effect at the same time?

Thanks,

vbahuse

 

[ADB100]

Not really possible. You could edit the configuration file offline, copy it back to the switch startup-config and then do a 'copy start run' (assuming you are using an IOS switch).

Andy

 

[vbahuse]

Wouldn't that cause spanning-tree to set all ports not in portfast to start blocking while a loop check is performed?

vbahuse

 

[ADB100]

Probably, however you didn't ask that. You wanted to know how to add multiple lines of configuration simultaneously, as there isn't a way of doing this I offered the only plausable way of doing it.
Can't you just cut-&-paste the configuration lines in? Surely this is quicker than typing them manually? What is it that is so critical that you need to do this?

Andy

 

[vbahuse]

Thanks for the suggestions. I guess your second one is most likely the route I will take (cuting and pasting) as it will introduce the least delay / dropped packets. The spanning-tree issue could take 30-60 seconds so that one is out!

The 3560 is sitting in a control room and is their only port to all the clients in the field. They record event history to 250ms and don't want that affected, however I understand your point and will let them know that they will just have to live with my best effort attempt.

Thanks again for the responses...

 

[Belushi]

If spanning tree is the source of your concern, then first you need to deteremine if your changes will affect the spanning tree topology. If they do and this is a concern to you, enable some of the spanning tree features that minimize the spanning tree convergance issues (i.e. - rapid spanning tree or other 802.1d enhancements).

 

[burtsbees]

By the way, commands take effect as soon as the return key is hit...

Burt

 

[jneiberger]

Routing changes do not affect spanning tree. Routing is a layer three function; spanning tree is layer two. They are unaware of each other.