On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 13:41, Andy Ciordia wrote:
> 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?
Yes. Usually, the first PXE/DHCP would fail as well if port-fast was
disabled. I just wanted you to verify port-fast was enabled.
/Brian/
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