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Should portfast be used on a port potentially having aconnecting to an unmanaged switch?

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Tim Brigham
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Should portfast be used on a port potentially having a switch?

I understand the basics of how spanning tree works and why you would want to use portfast on user access ports.

When dealing with a topology with a large number of dumb switches under desks and other undocumented locations do you really want to enable this on all "supposedly" access switches?

Apart from trying to track down these unmanaged switches what is best practice? Why?