[K12OSN] Setting up a Managed Switch

[Carl Keil]

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>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?
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>> Any further tweaks I can try to speed up the boot times?
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>Are both the clients and your server network cards set to auto-negotiate?
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I'm pretty sure the server is.  It's showing up as 1000BaseT full duplex 
in the switch and at the server.  I have no idea how to configure that 
on the client.  The client I'm using to test is an old PIII Dell 
(optiplex, I'm pretty sure) small form facter.  I'm using the onboard 
NIC set to On w/MBA in the BIOS.  The MBA manager doesn't give me much 
choice about settings besides just "PXE".

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