[134766] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Mon Jan 10 17:46:52 2011
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:46:53 -0800
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4D2B88F0.7090507@utc.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 1/10/2011 14:32, 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 solving/providing inter vendor interoperability solutions. they have PDF booklets on many things we would run into during work. for example, setting up STP between Cisco and HP gear, ( http://cdn.procurve.com/training/Manuals/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 :-)
>
To be fair, one is Cisco proprietary while the other is IEEE 802.1Q.
~Seth
