[124245] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Auto MDI/MDI-X + conference rooms + bored == loop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Foster)
Fri Mar 26 21:26:17 2010
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:24:05 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Mark Foster <blakjak@blakjak.net>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <2D6A0E72-28BA-489D-A3C8-8D7BAAAD0002@delong.com>
Cc: Chuck Anderson <cra@WPI.EDU>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> or reboot is problematic in many cases. Many systems drop link-state during reboot for a long-enough period that the bridge-port restarts its spanning tree process, making results across reboots consistently bad.
Interesting; Windows tends to bring link up well-prior to the login
dialogue and ive never seen a dhcp lease fail such that the user has had
no lease by the time they try to login...
