[K12OSN] New EL6 install

[Jomegat]

On 08/26/2011 03:05 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Jomegat<jomegat at jomegat.com>  wrote:
>
>> I did see some really strange things during the initial setup.  The real
>> head-scratcher was that I bought a managed switch on eBay a while back and
>> decided to try it out here.  It was to replace the 10/100 switch between my
>> TC's and terminal server.  The new switch has 24 10/100 ports and a pair of
>> gigE ports.  The new switch appears to work in every regard except - no TC
>> can boot through it.  For now I am stuck with my old 10/100 switch.  The
>> managed switch is a Dell PowerConnect 3024 (if memory serves), so if anyone
>> knows how to coax that into working between a cluster of TC's and a terminal
>> server, I'm all ears.
>
> Switches are supposed to do a spanning-tree check as new nodes appear
> and may block for 30 seconds or so - which may be long enough for a
> PXE boot attempt to time out and restart the cycle.   Look for a
> command to do 'rapid' spanning tree or to forward while learning.
>

Thanks!  I have never used a managed switch before, so this is all new 
to me.  I'll look for that.

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