[K12OSN] Setting up a Managed Switch
Eric J. Feldhusen
efeldhusen.lists at gmail.com
Sat Oct 6 18:40:27 UTC 2007
Carl Keil wrote:
> Thanks so much for the replies. (And on the weekend, no less)
> The clients boot up now, but it takes almost 10 times longer than before
> on the other switch. Performance seems fine once they've booted. There
> are a lot of messages throughout the bootup process saying "nfs server
> not responding" followed by "nfs server OK". It eventually gets there,
> but I can't really function with bootup times this long. One thing I
> noticed is that it said that it had only negotiated 100BaseT, half
> duplex. Could that be causing the slowdown? I told the switch to auto
> negotiate, but to default to full duplex 100, should I force it to full
> 100?
>
> Any further tweaks I can try to speed up the boot times?
Are both the clients and your server network cards set to auto-negotiate?
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