laptop fails to "hear" replies

[Kevin D. Clark]

Lloyd Kvam writes:

> That timing is right on.  However, it needs to be a problem triggered by
> the laptop.  I hit this problem on the road.  How would the laptop force
> the port to be disabled?

Were you running any programs on your laptop that could have emitted
some strange network traffic?

Some manufacturers offer features on their switches that will shunt a
port if it detects any strange network traffic.  For example, it is
possible to configure ports on such switches to shutdown if they see
incoming STP or DHCP-reply traffic on "end-user" ports.

Regards,

--kevin
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