Have you enabled portfast? sometimes things like this can happen because the client is having difficulties seeing traffic to bind to. It takes forever on a cisco cwitch to get a good link if portfast is not enabled.
-Patrick >>> "Chuck Larrieu" 01/18/02 05:50PM >>> have you tried this particular machine in the other switches? sometimes a bad windows installation on a pc will blue screen no matter what. ""John Neiberger"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > We're having an interesting issue that just appeared recently. We have > some Dell PCs running Netware 6 and new client software. We're not sure > why, but if one of these machines is connected to a 2924XL switch, it > regularly experiences a blue screen of death either at login or within 5 > minutes of login. > > We have identical machines that operate fine if they're connected to > our Bay switches or Cisco 1900 switches. > > Have any of you seen anything like this?? That makes no sense to me. > The only difference I've been able to determine is that Spanning Tree is > turned off on those particular Bay switches and 1900 switches, yet it is > turned on on the 2924XL switches. So, perhaps these PCs are reacting > badly to STP BPDU. > > Any thoughts? Our LAN people are doing some testing with different NIC > software and Novell client software and I'll post back to the list if we > determine the actual cause of the issue. But can you think of why it > would only happen if they're connect to a 2924? > > Thanks, > John Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=32689&t=32536 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
