Yeah it's portfast. Seen it a million times with PXE. On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) < [email protected]> wrote:
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Morse, Richard E.MGH > > > > What should I be looking at? I tried to Google various things, but I'm > not > > convinced I even know where to start -- at least, nothing I've found > seems to > > address my question, or at least make sense to me. > > First, figure out the IP addresses of your switches. It looks like both > the 5324 and 5224 have management interfaces. It will probably be easiest > if you browse to them via http://ipaddress > > If you just want one big flat network, try doing a factory reset, if you > can. On both switches. If you can't find any such thing, make sure all > the ports have no VLAN specified (or by default, VLAN 1). > > Even the link that goes between the two switches - other people here have > said use trunking etc, but don't. The simplest setup for you will be to > make it as brainless as possible. By just having normal-configured, > default ports, connected together, they should pass all traffic. > > The comments about portfast are worth paying attention to. If the ports > don't come up fast enough, you might not have an active link by the time > the system tries PXE boot. You might want to look in BIOS and see if they > give you the option for a boot delay. If you don't have portfast, then the > network will take an extra 30 seconds. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- Joseph A Kern [email protected]
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