Brian Long wrote:
Does your switch have spanning tree port-fast enabled? This tells the switch to disable spanning tree calculations for that port. If not configured and spanning tree is enabled on your network, the time it takes your link to come up could be 30+ seconds and that's too long for "loader" to acquire an IP.
Sorry for being a bit dense atm, are you saying spanning tree port-fast should be enabled? As well, it does aquire the first pass, through PXE's asking DHCP for an address, that is resolved immediatly. Its the second DHCP request which is when the install engages that stalls.
Currently on out Catalyst 5000: ! #spantree #uplinkfast groups set spantree uplinkfast disable #backbonefast set spantree backbonefast disable #vlan 208 set spantree enable 208 set spantree fwddelay 15 208 set spantree hello 2 208 set spantree maxage 20 208 set spantree priority 32768 208 -- Andy Ciordia, Network Engineer Planned Giving Design Center (www.pgdc.com) 10800-D Independence Pointe Pkwy, Matthews, NC 28105 Ph: (704)849-0731 x106 | Fax: (770)456-5239 --
