In message <560.989065737@brandenburg.cs.mu.OZ.AU>, Robert Elz writes:
>It reconfigures the network.   This causes an up/down of the net
>interface, which then causes many switches to run the full spanning
>tree algorithm over the port - just in case it is now connected to
>some other switch and is making a loop.

Ahh, this is quite plausible.  It is connected to a Cisco switch, and
'portfast' is supposed to be enabled, but could have been missed.

>You really want to fix this, or it won't only be sysinst that doesn't
>work correctly, dhclient won't work properly either (it also reconfigures
>the interface and then immediately expects to be able to send/receive
>traffic).

I noticed that, though it did eventually work.

I'll have the switch settings checked, thanks.

:: Mike ::