Crow69 aka thedude wrote: > Also, I don't have this problem when using a small 10/100 Linksys hub I > have. I am required to get this working on the Cisco switch, though. > It appears to be a long negotiation issue between the e1000 and the > Cisco switch. It isn't negotiation -- it is spanning tree, which takes about 50 seconds to go through all phases by default. Set the port to 'spanning-tree portfast' on the Cisco switch and you should no longer have those problems. Mark -- Mark D. Nagel, CCIE #3177 <mnagel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Principal Consultant, Willing Minds LLC tel/fax: 949-623-9853, web: http://www.willingminds.com/