Hi! Thanks to everyone who responded with suggestions! Apparently, it works if 
I turn *off* spanning-tree on the child switch, leaving the parent switch 
configured with RSTP. I'm not sure why, not what deleterious side effects I've 
just introduced, sadly. But at least everything seems to be working so far.

Is "portfast" the same thing as "edge port"? If so, I may go over again and 
look more closely at those settings.

Thanks again,
Ricky

On Jan 11, 2013, at 5:15 PM, Atom Powers <[email protected]> wrote:

> Spanning-Tree attempts to detect network loops by looking for special kinds
> of packets that only switches generate. So typically you would enable
> portfast on your access ports, ports that are connected directly to hosts,
> but not on your uplink ports, ports connected to other switches.


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