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Re: Advice regarding Cisco/Juniper/HP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Wed Jun 30 13:09:29 2010
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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:08:44 +0100
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
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On 30/06/2010 17:07, George Bonser wrote:
> Some gear you add vlans to a port. Other gear you add ports to vlans.
> Personally, I prefer the Cisco configuration syntax because 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.
Both syntax types (per port and per vlan) break in terms of readability at
a certain stage. Unfortunately, that stage comes very quickly in terms of
many configurations. There's just no way to be elegant on most complicated
configurations.
Nick
