Auto MDI/MDI-X + conference rooms + bored == loop
John Payne
john at sackheads.org
Mon Apr 5 12:30:58 UTC 2010
On Mar 26, 2010, at 9:24 PM, Mark Foster <blakjak at 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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