[127472] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Advice regarding Cisco/Juniper/HP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Whynott)
Wed Jun 30 12:18:39 2010
From: Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>
To: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:18:24 -0400
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE09EA4EFC@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 30, 2010, at 12:07 PM, George Bonser wrote:
> if I want to
> know which vlans a port is in, you look at the port config and there it
> is. Other gear you need to look through each vlan configuration and
> note which vlans the port appears in and hope you don't overlook one.
or become familiar with some basic commands, which is after all, our job.=
.. on hp: show port vlan e1, which will show you all the vlans port E1 =
is a member of..=20
I like cisco, but i think the HP way is more logical and less prone to err=
or. A previous poster gave an excelent example, i burnt myself not adding=
the "add" to a trunk config on our cisco switches. i went over the magic=
al number (and I've no idea why you need to use another argument when you p=
ass some threshold, it seems redundant and silly) of vlans and took out ab=
out 7 departments till I realized what I had done. thankfully you only ne=
ed to do this once to learn.=20
the trunking is more logical on HP config wise too, there is a line in th=
e config which shows all the members and trunk type, on one line. =20
not being able to issue commands while in config mode (without the 'do') is=
annoying as hell too.. its like not being able to do anything on a unix b=
ox while you are root without being asked "are you sure" every time you hit=
carriage return.
=20
the biggest think I don't like about the HP CLI is the lack of regx or the =
ablitly to string a few together on one line. some models have it, others=
don''t. that woudl be the second issue, the lack of consistency between=
devices. cisco owns that one.
-g
