Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu spake the following on 1/16/2007 1:41 PM: > On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 14:36 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: >> If you are using Cisco switches make sure that you have "spanning-tree >> portfast" set for each PC/thinclient port, otherwise the spanning-tree >> protocol negotiation phase might step on the DHCP offers. > > Ah, yes, the infamous spanning-tree problem. That stupid thing has > driven quite a few people nuts. > In my case it's not so simple. The switches aren't by Cisco, and > they're unmanaged. > > Also, everything was working flawlessly before - I don't know what's > changed besides the new cabling. > > I wonder if it could be a routing problem. I'll have to look into it > more. > > Regards, > > Ranbir > > > I had a similar problem with some unmanaged switches and some cabling. I had to pull the power on all the switches and re-plug them in. The moving around of stuff must have corrupted their mac caches. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!