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c : client-management@lists.apple.com 10 December 2005 • 2:30AM -0500

Re: ARP messages about 169.
by Steven Kolins

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Kevin Windham <kevin@digi...> on Friday, December 9, 2005 at 10:31
AM -0500 wrote:
>Well, I'm not sure what you are trying to say here. Is it a Cisco  
>switch the clients are plugged in to, and are they Macs?

Yes, our nominal network is Cisco based. But what I am saying is that a
PARTICULAR Cisco device is either the "from" or "to" hardware address in all
the alerts.

>If so, I  recommend either turning portfast on for every port except switch to
>
>switch ports, or turn spanning tree off.

That had been the norm, I can't speak for now. That'll go on my list of things
to ask.

Is there a consensus that if portfast is not enabled that this kind of error
will tend to show up??

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Steven Kolins
Alamance-Burlington NC USA, Mac Systems Tech
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http://homepage.mac.com/smkolins
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