On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Lloyd Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds like the difference between a switch capable of Spanning Tree, > and one that isn't.
Yep. I've seen that also. Some switches let you disable spanning tree algorithm on a per-port and/or global basis. Also, not always visible to the eye, if a cable has previously been crimped, stretched, or sometimes simply curled too tightly it is possible to lose its rated characteristics. You can get seemingly-random errors that can manifest in bizarre ways. (I once had a bad cable that handled HTTP just fine, but made FTP simply vomit and caused some serious head scratching till we swapped out the cable--and it had no visible damage. We took scissors to it immediately to make sure it didn't get plugged in somewhere else by accident.) /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
