Re: DHCP timeout is too short for this college network

[Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh gmail com>]

Hi,

On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Benoit Boissinot wrote:

> I've seen cases (wired network) where the communication actually work
> only about 60 seconds after the the interface it brought up (I think
> it has to do with some interaction with the switches). Maybe that's
> the case here?

This is often caused by Spanning Tree running on the switch and that port
not being set to use "Portfast" (aka "Edge") mode.  

Gavin