Next message: Perbix, Michael: "RE: [WinMac] AppleTalk - not seeing the zones"
Spanning tree is a protocol that analyzes your network connection and makes
sure you are not inducing any loops in the network. If it realizes there is
a loop, it will shut the port on the switch down. The problem is that the
protocol closes the port while it does it's thing and in the meantime the
Mac is booting up looking for AppleTalk info. The port finally opens after
the machine is booted and this whole process is what is not making the Mac
happy, this problem affects all Macs and all version of AppleTalk.
How was that?
-Mike 8-)
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Michael Perbix - Network Hardware Technician
Lower Merion School District
Technology & Information Services
Voice (610) 896-8267 Fax (610)896-8224
Email: perbix@LMSD.ORG
> ----------
> From: Dean Suhr
> Reply To: winmac@iffy.com
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 11:50 PM
> To: WinMac
> Subject: Re: [WinMac] AppleTalk - not seeing the zones
>
> I found a file in Apple's TIL early this morning that is right up this
> tree.
> I did indeed swap his network port on the hub over the weekend. I thought
> that all hub ports were the same but I guess not. I changed his port and
> powered down the hub tonight. We'll find out in the AM if he's back on
> line.
>
> Mike --So how about a quick layman's lesson on what a spanning tree is -
> and
> how a hub, not a switch, could affect it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dean>on 2/22/01 2:57 PM, Perbix, Michael at PERBIX@lmsd.org wrote:
>
> > This seems very much like a spanning tree issue. Check the switch port
> and
> > make sure that spanning tree is turned off. I am all the more familiar
> > with this characteristic...and have seen it many times.
> >
> > -Mike
>
>
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