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mjr211

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September 12th, 2007 13:00

dynamic vlans on 3448

I am having connectivity issues with end users using dell desktops/laptops on my network. after configuring dynamic vlans, about 40% of end users were having trouble receiving logon scripts, mapped drives, printing across the network, etc. the other 60% percent had no trouble. after a five minute timeout period on the switchports, a port loses its vlan assignment giving by the mac-to-vlan table and defaults to the pvid. however, when the device that is plugged into the port becomes active again, it is having connectivity issues unless it is given time to pick up the dynamic vlan. needless to say, i had to revert back to an old config so everyone can do their jobs. i was hoping the switchport would see a mac address, assign the vlan and not change it unless it saw a different mac address on that same port. has anyone experienced this and what was done to fix it?
  • Crzywolf

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    Posted September 14th, 2007 15:00

    Are your users playing musical chairs on your network?  If the computer is stationary you probably want to go ahead and assign that port to that particular vlan.  You also want to enable Portfast on the ports that have pc's connected to them.  Spanning-tree will not forward packets untill about 30-45 seconds after the link is up.  This usually causes timeouts to the DHCP server and communication to the Domain Controller.
  • mrenne

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    Posted September 14th, 2007 16:00

    i work in education and have tons of faculty members that move offices frequently and i fear the administration would be too great if i assigned ports to vlans. i do have portfast enable on the switchports. i'm quite baffled at this point...i'm also starting to look at different vendors to see what they have to offer for what i want to do.