slow dhcp on 1G backbone.

[Glen R. J. Neff]

On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 15:39 +0100, Simon Hobson wrote:


> Some devices will give up on DHCP before the port is enabled for 
> traffic, others will have dropped back to long retry periods.
> 

I've actually seen many cases where you need to set 'spanning-tree
portfast' to get DHCP to function at all.

-G

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