[134765] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Whynott)
Mon Jan 10 17:42:40 2011
From: Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>
To: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:42:35 -0500
In-Reply-To: <4D2B88F0.7090507@utc.edu>
Cc: nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>,
"khomyakov.andrey@gmail.com" <khomyakov.andrey@gmail.com>
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just to play devils advocate..
PVST is Cisco propriety.
I'd rather see vendors default to an open standard as opposed to something =
which is closed. the lowest common denominator=85
in my eyes the document tells you how to make a cisco and hp switch work to=
gether, not convert.
numbers alone do not denote intelligence, if so cockroaches would rule the=
world. 8)
-g
On Jan 10, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Jeff Kell wrote:
> On 1/10/2011 3:20 PM, Greg Whynott wrote:
>> HP probably was the most helpful vendor i've dealt with in relation to s=
olving/providing inter vendor interoperability solutions. they have PDF b=
ooklets on many things we would run into during work. for example, setti=
ng up STP between Cisco and HP gear, ( http://cdn.procurve.com/training/Ma=
nuals/ProCurve-and-Cisco-STP-Interoperability.pdf ).
>
> Well, technically, the HP reference tells you how to convert your Cisco
> default PVST over to MST to match the HP preference.
>
> The handful of HP switches versus the stacks and stacks of production
> Cisco requiring conversion to suit them was "intimidating" to say the
> least :-)
>
> Foundry/Brocade on the other hand do PVST (so they say, I haven't given
> it a thorough lab test).
>
> Jeff
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