Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Spanning Tree and Netatalk
From: Robert Beer (r-beer@onu.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 01 1999 - 13:14:18 EST
At 12:29 PM -0500 11/1/99, Lewis Pennock wrote:
>This problem didn't start happening until I upgraded to a Cisco Catalyst
>switch and put a 10/100 card in the Linux box. I have just disabled
>Spanning Tree to fix all our G3s which were acting up (see the TIL
>article), and tonight I will start testing Netatalk again, but if anyone
>can tell me whether or not the Spanning Tree problem even affects
>Netatalk at all in the first place it might save me some time. I guess
>what I'm asking is, "Is it a protocol wide problem or just a MacOS
>implementation problem?" Thanks!
I would look closely at autonegotiation and force both the switch and NIC to the same settings manually.
--- Bob Beer <r-beer@onu.edu> Ohio Northern University, Academic Computer Services, Ada, OH 45810
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