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Re: Auto MDI/MDI-X + conference rooms + bored == loop


From: John Payne <john () sackheads org>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 08:30:58 -0400



On Mar 26, 2010, at 9:24 PM, Mark Foster <blakjak () blakjak net> wrote:

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...

Easy to make happen with 802.1X, default IOS timers and an unconfigured supplicant


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