How Do I Prevent Terminals' Failures to Ping the Gateway or Low Speed in Obtaining IP Addresses When They Connect to an STP Network?
Terminal devices such as servers or network management workstations do not support STP. However, STP is enabled on switch interfaces by default. An STP interface enters the Forwarding state 30 seconds after it changes to the Up state. If an interface alternates between Up and Down states, the terminal connected to the interface will fail to communicate with the gateway or spends a long time to obtain an IP address.
To solve this problem, configure interfaces connected to terminals as edge ports or disable STP on the interfaces.
To ensure availability and security, you are advised to configure the port as an STP edge port. This is because when a loop occurs on a terminal device connected to an edge port, the port automatically switches to a non-edge port and enables the loop breaking function of STP.