Fwd: Re: [ok-mail] Re: [K12OSN] Problem with 5.0 and Cisco switch

[John Hansknecht]

On Tuesday 19 September 2006 17:58, Wilson Chan wrote:
> Whoops...Hit the wrong key! Continued below:
>
> For the Cisco Switch you can disable spanning-tree on the port. Be sure to
> only disable spanning-tree to ports connected to computers or you can
> create some nasty spanning-tree loops in your network.

I took a look at the function of 'spanning-tree' and I don't think this hits
the problem. The issue is not that the location of the client changes, the
MAC address is always connecting to the same port and always receiving the
same IP. Does spanning tree slow the start up of a connection?

John

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