[K12OSN] nfs troubles

[Roger]

On Nov 16, 2007 12:08 PM, "Terrell Prudé Jr." <microman at cmosnetworks.com> wrote:
>  Yep, I can see that happening.  Remember that, with IPX/SPX, the network
> address is done by MAC address (not so with IPv4), and the addresses are
> thus auto-assigned (no DHCP).  IPv6 "borrowed" this little trick and thus
> doesn't need DHCP any more than IPX does.

yep remembered the addressing. this was 5 or 6 years ago, so I wasn't
really sure what the problem was.  it did have something to do with no
IP address.   I think what the user saw was getting a login to the
file server, but their mail wouldn't work or something.  that's when
we got to digging around and found out that pesky delay.   I think
spanning tree has two or three 30 second delays during the port
enabling process.   A listening phase, a learning phase, something
else, then it enables the port.
portfast essentially bypasses the listening and learning.  (dang, is
that the name?)..  It just enables the port.    It does enable
spanning tree, just the pre-enabling checks aren't done.

Roger