On 10/11/06, Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> wrote:
> I have a school I service that is trying to improve the quality of their
> network. They have replaced a couple 10 Mb hubs with a pair of Cisco
> 2950 switches. I am not entirely sure if they don't have a loop going
> on, but now their appleshare servers and printers drop off randomly,
> with no apparent pattern. Any ideas why this would be, or if a person
> should add anything to the switch config to aid in helping appleshare
> work correctly?

Bruce gave good advice about checking the speed/duplex settings on
each of the suspect ports.

Additionally, make sure that STP is turned on on your 2950 switches.
That will enable the switches to detect loops and deal gracefully with
them.

-Erik