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Pesos
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Posted - 07/12/2012 :  11:14:36 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
hi all,

we recently picked up some 2948g-ge-tx switches on the cheap - and they are CatOS instead of iOS.

I tried to set up portfast because lots of users are having issues where they log into windows too soon and haven't been granted network access yet due to spanning tree (I'm assuming). But I don't seem to have done it correctly.

Does anyone know the proper way to configure CatOS so that devices are granted immediate network access?

Thanks!
-Wes

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Posted - 07/12/2012 :  12:01:10 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Guess you know why you got them on the cheap now.

Can't you flash to iOS?
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Pesos
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Posted - 07/12/2012 :  12:02:08 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Unfortunately these models aren't iOS capable...
-Wes
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Posted - 07/12/2012 :  12:32:14 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
This might help.
http://nets.ucar.edu/nets/presentations/training.topics/catos-vs-ios.pdf

Looks like these were end of life-d 3 years ago. You might be better off selling on eBay and getting something that's more main stream and supported.

Doug
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Posted - 07/12/2012 :  4:09:56 PM  Show Profile  Click to see sixdoubleo's MSN Messenger address  Send sixdoubleo a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
See this thread where I provided the CatOS commands for configuring this...about 6th post down or so.

http://www.minasi.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=32342
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Pesos
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Posted - 07/21/2012 :  1:08:23 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks guys. Ugh.

Have tried enabling portfast, still problematic if users log in too soon after boot. Ran set spantree disable all to completely do away with STP and they still have the problem... Any idea why that might be?
-Wes
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Posted - 07/21/2012 :  4:28:47 PM  Show Profile  Visit Playwell's Homepage  Click to see Playwell's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
The common solution for that is to turn on the policy 'Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon'
'People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. '
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Pesos
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Posted - 07/29/2012 :  1:42:46 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Was finally able to get it to work by doing a "set port host" on all ports... No more delay
-Wes
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