On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 14:37 -0400, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > Lloyd Kvam writes: > > > That timing is right on. However, it needs to be a problem triggered by > > the laptop. I hit this problem on the road. How would the laptop force > > the port to be disabled? > > Were you running any programs on your laptop that could have emitted > some strange network traffic?
I don't think so. This was occurring at boot, trying to reach the DHCP server. > > Some manufacturers offer features on their switches that will shunt a > port if it detects any strange network traffic. For example, it is > possible to configure ports on such switches to shutdown if they see > incoming STP or DHCP-reply traffic on "end-user" ports. The other factor is that tcpdump at the DHCP server showed the incoming requests and the outgoing replies. tcpdump on the laptop only showed the outgoing requests. I appreciate the interest. The laptop is now running Ubuntu (and booting OK), so I can not troubleshoot that problem anymore. > > Regards, > > --kevin -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp. 1 Court Street, Suite 378 Lebanon, NH 03766-1358 voice: 603-653-8139 fax: 320-210-3409 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/