cannot kickstart after buying new SMC switch

[oconnell at soe.ucsd.edu (Sean O'Connell)]

On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 02:06 -0400, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
> For some reason I cannot kickstart via pxe after installing a new SMC 
> 48Port GigE switch.
> 
> I swapped out an old hub to test and kickstarting still works with the old 
> hub.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions,

Robin-

I assume this is a managed switch. This is most likely SpanTree biting
you. You need to enable the equivalent of PortFast for ports on your
switch that have hosts attached to it.

-- 
Sean