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tha’ts what we wound up doing; switching the port on the switch from spanning tree to portfast

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spanning tree was enabled on the port that the server was connected to on the switch. disabling it seems to have fixed the issue.

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[QUOTE BY= MacTroll] How did you turn of Rendezvous?[/QUOTE]

Via the GUI in the services section (sorry I can’t be more specific, it was a few weeks ago, and I am not the admin of that box.)

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[QUOTE BY= alxknt] have you confirmed that it is rendezvous’s fault; have you tried turning rendezvous back on to see if the machine’s connection stabilises ?

how exactly did you manage to turn off rendezvous? did you just un-tick the ‘Enable Rendezvous registration’ in the AFP settings?[/QUOTE]

I do not believe that the loss of connectivity is due to Rendezvous, rather that when it was on, it’s periodic broadcasts were keeping the machine online. It was turned off via the gui, yes.

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rendezvous broadcasts UDP packets (port 5353 I believe,) and isn’t really meant to go across any routing, otherwise you could very easily see a broadcast storm that in a network of any real size could become quite a headache (as well as making your routers and switches run their procs up really high pretty quickly.)

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