Bad Switch Port on a 3550 ?

[jamiehans]

Does anyone know why a flapping link(CAT5) would cause a switch port to go bad? At work the other day I was able to get a link light from that switch port, but couldn't pull an IP address. I plugged the computer into another port and it worked just fine. I tested the run from the users walljack and it was bad, this is the second time it messed up the switch port. I tried clearing the counters, switching VLANs, and shutting down the port, but no go.

Thanks

[glen.grant]

It sounds like it is errdisabling the port but usually if you just renable the port it should come back up unless there is still a problem on the port .

[jamiehans]

Yeah thats what I thought, but it didn't work. Thanks for your help.