Slow DHCP and the lack of Portfast

Posted: 2013-01-14 14:05:50 by Alasdair Keyes

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If you're using DHCP and it seems to be taking a long time to get an Address from your server, check that Portfast is enabled in your switch config.

The config setting will be specific to your brand of switch, but it enabled good fast PXE booting for me.

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