We have these new IBM laptops that have the Intel 1000Pro gig cards. When we connect them to any of out catalyst switches (4006 or 2980) it takes about 15 seconds to negotiate something. But when I connect it to a cheep SMC switch it does it in abo...

We have just started to notice with a new set of laptops that when we installed CSA ver. 4.0.3.720 or 4.0.3.728 it takes up to 30 seconds to get the log in screen. These systems are XP fully patched with sp2. I've also started to hear a few other p...