Issue with Aquiring DHCP

[Andy Ciordia]

Brian Long wrote:
> Does your switch have spanning tree port-fast enabled?  This tells the
> switch to disable spanning tree calculations for that port.  If not
> configured and spanning tree is enabled on your network, the time it
> takes your link to come up could be 30+ seconds and that's too long for
> "loader" to acquire an IP.
> 

Sorry for being a bit dense atm, are you saying spanning tree port-fast 
should be enabled?  As well, it does aquire the first pass, through 
PXE's asking DHCP for an address, that is resolved immediatly.  Its the 
second DHCP request which is when the install engages that stalls.

Currently on out Catalyst 5000:

!
#spantree
#uplinkfast groups
set spantree uplinkfast disable
#backbonefast
set spantree backbonefast disable
#vlan 208
set spantree enable     208
set spantree fwddelay 15    208
set spantree hello    2     208
set spantree maxage   20    208
set spantree priority 32768 208



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