PXE on a 2950t

[Max5Pier]

I am mystified...

We are staging some workstations with WinXP using PXE (Preboot Execution Environment)- wish gives the workstation its IP informations. We tried it on some unmanaged Dell 2124 it went fine, but when we swaped them for the brand new Cisco 2950's it didn't work anymore. The workstations could not get an IP address.

The workstation sends a broadcast, but it seems that it does not go behound the switch...?

Is there someone out there that experienced this problem (and managed to solve it) ?

I can't understand or even admit that a dummy Dell switch can do something that a Cisco can't...please prove me wrong.

 

[ciscoexpert]

Hmm on the 2950 port you will need to enable Portfast.

Check this link on how to enable it.

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/473/12.html

And yes, there are a lot of things, the Cisco box can do, that the Dell cannot.



Sankar Nair
General Datatech l.p.

http://www.generaldatatech.com

 

[Max5Pier]

That's it !

I simply enabled portfast on the desired ports and it worked right away. Is it possible to enable it on all port at once ? It takes a while to enable it on every port on every switch of a 5 switch cluster...

Thanks for the tip .

 

[dx1]

On newer 2950, you can use the interface range command.

int range fa 0/1 - 24