[c-nsp] PXE not working on Cat2948

[Ian Henderson]

On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Jens Neu wrote:

> Anyone seen this before? Any hints where to start looking? The switch 
> looks as follows:

Sounds like you need to enable spanning-tree portfast on the interfaces 
towards the PXE clients. This reduces the link up delay from 50 seconds to 
about 3. If the switch doesn't forward traffic quickly enough, the NIC may 
time out and decide PXE is unavailable.

Rgds,



- I.