Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-05-02 Thread Control Program
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 01:22:50AM -0400, Jim Gillen wrote: I would read the document on the CISCO site and then if that doesn't help let us know what is the nature of the problem. The document in question is: Using Portfast and Other Commands to Fix Workstation Startup Connectivity

Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-05-02 Thread Jim Gillen
o ensure a loop-free environment. -- Leigh Anne -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: April 30, 2001 7:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564] Oh, speaking of AppleTalk. We've got a customer (not mine,

Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-05-02 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
April 30, 2001 7:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564] Oh, speaking of AppleTalk. We've got a customer (not mine, but one of the engineers working the account bounced this off me): They claim their new Macs can't access the network if Spann

RE: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-05-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 1:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564] If it really takes 15-30 seconds for a switch to forward even when portfast is enabled, I can see why AppleTalk nodes would hate this. An AppleTalk node sends messages right away

Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-05-02 Thread Jason Roysdon
30, 2001 7:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564] Oh, speaking of AppleTalk. We've got a customer (not mine, but one of the engineers working the account bounced this off me): They claim their new Macs can't access the network if Spanning

RE: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-05-02 Thread Hire, Ejay
There is an Apple knowledgebase article about this issue. It is Doc#30922. Ejay Hire -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 2:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564] Believe it or not it's

Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-05-02 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
-- Leigh Anne -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: April 30, 2001 7:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564] Oh, speaking of AppleTalk. We've got a customer (n

Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-05-02 Thread Jason Roysdon
-- Leigh Anne -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: April 30, 2001 7:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564] Oh, speaking of AppleTalk. We've got a customer (not mine, but one of t

Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-05-02 Thread Marty Adkins
Leigh Anne Chisholm wrote: It's a symptom of the problem I wrote about earlier in this thread. When a MAC becomes active on the network, the computer isn't able to communicate for the first 50 seconds the port detects the end-system is active. The port begins in blocking mode, then

Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-05-02 Thread Jason Roysdon
-- From: Priscilla Oppenheimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 1:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564] If it really takes 15-30 seconds for a switch to forward even when portfast is enabled, I can see why AppleTalk nodes wo

RE: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-05-02 Thread Chuck Larrieu
PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564] It took me 10 times to get the thing to allow me to create a new account (each time, it would time out when I hit Continue, and when I'd go back all the form would be blank). Anyway, from the Knowledgebase at http://www.apple.com/support

RE: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-05-02 Thread LeBrun, Tim
Sent: April 30, 2001 7:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564] Oh, speaking of AppleTalk. We've got a customer (not mine, but one of the engineers working the account bounced this off me): They claim their new Macs can't access the network

Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-05-02 Thread Jason Roysdon
on a port - and Spanning Tree is used to ensure a loop-free environment. -- Leigh Anne -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: April 30, 2001 7:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-05-02 Thread Jason Roysdon
. -- Leigh Anne -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: April 30, 2001 7:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564] Oh, speaking of AppleTalk. We've got a cus

RE: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-05-02 Thread Christopher Supino
PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 9:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564] Oh, speaking of AppleTalk. We've got a customer (not mine, but one of the engineers working the account bounced this off me): They claim their new Macs can't access the network

Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-05-02 Thread Tom Lisa
response to this one! ) chuck -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 1:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564] It took me 10 times to get the thing to allow me to create

Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-05-02 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564] Oh, speaking of AppleTalk. We've got a customer (not mine, but one of the engineers working the account bounced this off me): They claim their new Macs can't access the network if Spanning Tree

Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-05-02 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
]] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 1:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564] It took me 10 times to get the thing to allow me to create a new account (each time, it would time out when I hit Continue, and when I'd go back all the form would

RE: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-05-02 Thread Medley, Tim
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564] The other way to solve the problem would be to delete AppleTalk and use native IP on your Mac's ;- ( can't wait for PO's response to this one! ) chuck -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-05-01 Thread Jason Roysdon
portfast essentially disables Spanning Tree on a port - and Spanning Tree is used to ensure a loop-free environment. -- Leigh Anne -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: April 30, 2001 7:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spann

RE: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-05-01 Thread Medley, Tim
-Confucius Tim Medley - CCNA, CCDA VoIP Engineer 704-943-3615 - Phone 704-525-9119 - Fax 877-6-iReady - Helpdesk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 11:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564

Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-04-30 Thread Vincent Chong
Try portfast, if connecrivity issue. John Gotti wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hey all...we are having a problem where workstations sporatically will not be able to obtain an IP address from our DHCP server. After about 4 minutes, you can perform a manual renew

Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-04-30 Thread Vincent Chong
By the way, where is the DHCP server, if your DHCP is located in the other vlan, you need add ip-helper address in your router. Hope this help Vincent Chong John Gotti wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hey all...we are having a problem where workstations

RE: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-04-30 Thread Charles Manafa
This is definitely a spanning tree issue. Enabling port fast on the access ports will get rid of the problem. CM -Original Message- From: John Gotti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 April 2001 15:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564] Hey all...we are

Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-04-30 Thread Phil Barker
Strongly in favour, A similar problem occurs in an IPX environment. Make sure all Servers/Clients are 'portfast' and switch/switch disable 'portfast'. Regards, Phil. --- John Gotti wrote: Hey all...we are having a problem where workstations sporatically will not be able to obtain an IP

Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-04-30 Thread Curtis Call
What you were told sounds correct to me. If you have a port that is only connecting to workstations or servers then turn on portfast for that port. That will prevent you from having problems with DHCP. At 08:43 AM 4/30/01, you wrote: Hey all...we are having a problem where workstations

RE: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-04-30 Thread Leigh Anne Chisholm
A few comments. First, not being able to obtain a DHCP lease upon initial boot isn't a problem related to Cisco's Spanning Tree Protocol implementation. Cisco implements the IEEE 802.1D STP algorithm that specifies when a port becomes active, it must go through the blocking, listening, and

Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-04-30 Thread Bob Edmonds
How exactly do you configure portfast on a 2924XL-EN? Just wanna try it out! Thanks Bob Edmonds CCNA, Network+ John Gotti wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hey all...we are having a problem where workstations sporatically will not be able to obtain an IP

RE: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-04-30 Thread LeBrun, Tim
Config t interface FastEthernet0/1 spanning-tree portfast Tim LeBrun CCNA, CCDA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Bob Edmonds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 3:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564] How exactly do

Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-04-30 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
At 11:08 AM 4/30/01, Phil Barker wrote: Strongly in favour, A similar problem occurs in an IPX environment. Make sure all Servers/Clients are 'portfast' and switch/switch disable 'portfast'. A similar problem happens with AppleTalk too. That's what we get for expecting switches to replace hubs

Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-04-30 Thread Jason Roysdon
Oh, speaking of AppleTalk. We've got a customer (not mine, but one of the engineers working the account bounced this off me): They claim their new Macs can't access the network if Spanning Tree is enabled. Supposedly this has been verified by Apple and TAC (but we've never had a customer lie

Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-04-30 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
It's the same old thing. You gotta turn on portfast. P. At 09:15 PM 4/30/01, Jason Roysdon wrote: Oh, speaking of AppleTalk. We've got a customer (not mine, but one of the engineers working the account bounced this off me): They claim their new Macs can't access the network if Spanning Tree

RE: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-04-30 Thread Leigh Anne Chisholm
PROTECTED]] Sent: April 30, 2001 7:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564] Oh, speaking of AppleTalk. We've got a customer (not mine, but one of the engineers working the account bounced this off me): They claim their new Macs can't access the network