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Misconfigured switch?

Hello everyone

I was suggested to go here from the MS technet forums, as my problem originally was related to TFTP, PXE and ConfigMgr, but it seems the problem can be a cisco router. 

I copied the thread i made:

m having a rather peculiar issue with horrendously slow downloading of the boot.wim filer over TFTP. This is for a customer, who has an old ConfiMgr environment and  new one which I have recently implemented.

The old environment is configured almost identical to the new environment 

-RamDiskTFTPBlockSize is set to 16384 in both cases
-RamDiskTFTPWindowSize is set to the default 4 in both cases
-Send Receive Buffers is identical at 2mb on both

Difference: The new environment has 2 Cisco 3750x  switches 

Switches are configured as follows:

 

Switch1:

interface TenGigabitEthernet1/1/1

switchport access vlan 122

switchport mode access

flowcontrol receive on

spanning-tree portfast

!

interface TenGigabitEthernet1/1/2

switchport access vlan 122

switchport mode access

flowcontrol receive on

spanning-tree portfast

Switch2:

interface TenGigabitEthernet1/1/1

switchport access vlan 122

switchport mode access

flowcontrol receive on

spanning-tree portfast

!

interface TenGigabitEthernet1/1/2

switchport access vlan 122

switchport mode access

flowcontrol receive on

spanning-tree portfast

The difference is immense. 15 minutes on the new environment, compared to 30 seconds on the old. The only difference as far as I can tell is the fact the there is a switch connected to the new one, so as far as I can see this is only obstacle that could provide such a drastic stop.

Am I right in assuming this, or is there anything else that could account for this difference?

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Jimmy Johansson
Level 1
Level 1

How is your network topology? I just find it odd you're using a L3-switch in the access layer and ten gigabit-interfaces in access mode when usually they're used for trunking.

I frankly don't know. Im purely a client management specialist, and am unfortunately nowhere close to being as good with networks as I would like. Adding to this, this is for a client of mine, where I have little to no control over anything but servers I'm hired to work with.

Please check the port status

# show interface TenGigabitEthernet1/1/x on both the switches, and make sure that you are seeing correct speed/duplex.

Please check the counters for any errors.

#show interfaces counters errors 

Antonio Knox
Level 7
Level 7

I'd try turning off flow control (no flowcontrol receive on)

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/sw/5_x/nx-os/interfaces/configuration/guide/if_cli/if_basic.html

 

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