My new Catalyst 2960G switches take a minimum of 1 minute before forwarding traffic after a fresh power cycle (Portfast = enabled).A slow boot is acceptable on a PC, but not on a switch. Anyway to trim this down?
Switch to switch?Switch to server?Switch to desktop?Switch to router?Switch to firewall?By the way, I've decided to disable auto-negotiation and set speeds for 100/full or 1000/full for ports and connecting hosts.
Rick, what IOS vers are you running? My plan was to eventually upgrade the firmware and retest. I'm curious to see if you (or someone else) tried an upgrade to recent f/w and still saw the problem.
It's interesting that others are seeing this. Within the last month, I've experienced the exact same issue on one of my Catalyst 3548XLs:1. All hosts connected to the switch ports can ping each other2. I can plug a laptop directly into an open switc...
