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STP Can affect this because on Cisco devices it places the port in listening mode when it first comes up. It can take up to 30 seconds for the port to go from Listening to Learning and on to F... See more...
STP Can affect this because on Cisco devices it places the port in listening mode when it first comes up. It can take up to 30 seconds for the port to go from Listening to Learning and on to Forwarding mode. Once it is in Forwarding mode it will begin passing traffic, prior to this no traffic is passed on the port. The kickstart is likely timing out waiting on Spanning Tree. In Cisco switches set Spanning-Tree portfast (or Spanning-Tree portfast trunk) to configure the switch to begin passing traffic immediately. ~Anthony
I ran into a similar problem and tracked it down to the network trunk configuration. In my case I was using Network Trunks with a native VLAN of 21. In my service Console Port group I had set i... See more...
I ran into a similar problem and tracked it down to the network trunk configuration. In my case I was using Network Trunks with a native VLAN of 21. In my service Console Port group I had set it to use VLAN21 as well, however native VLANs should not be tagged. As soon as I cleared the VLAN on the Service Console Port Group it worked fine.