Yep. Seen this one. I had a fairly large switched environment (Bay, not
Cisco) where people were failing to obtain DHCP addresses. Spanning tree
was removed and the problem went away.
Craig
At 02:45 PM 12/16/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>The potential problem is spanning tree will shut down the link for the first
>thirty seconds (default) before passing traffic. If your computer is far
>enough along in the boot proccess and makes a dhcp request before the switch
>activates the port, the dhcp request will fail. Use portfast to prevent this
>problem. Portfast is fine so long as you are sure no switch will be
>connected to that port. This problem can be seen more frequently with PCMCIA
>NICS. The computer may not assert the link on the card until late in the
>boot process and then almost immediatly issue the DHCP request.
>""A. Ward"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Has anyone had issues where DHCP limited the use of the Spanning tree =
> > protocol?
> >
> > Can you send me a lead to a white paper or give me any information on =
> > this issue?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > A. Ward
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