in general, you never want to set portfast on a port where a switch is connected to, managed or unmanaged. Unmanaged is probably even worse because you cannot even control or configure whether or not it becomes the root switch.
what do the logs on the switch show ? Depending on the physical setup of your network, if you have only 1 Vlan, you could try and turn spanning tree off for that Vlan, using the command:
I was thinking of disabling the spanning tree port fast...what do you think? I'm just learning this so...I found some articles regarding portfast but still unsure..
Spanning-tree portfast by the way means that the port goes into forwarding immediately instead of going through the listening and learning states first. It is generally used for access ports with end hosts attached.
in general, you never want to set portfast on a port where a switch is connected to, managed or unmanaged. Unmanaged is probably even worse because you cannot even control or configure whether or not it becomes the root switch.
