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.
>
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