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Re: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Mon Jan 10 18:20:17 2011
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:20:19 -0800
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <BLU158-w22DA6A658E32C1B6CBFB82DC0E0@phx.gbl>
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On 1/10/2011 14:54, Brandon Kim wrote:
>
> To be fair to Cisco and maybe I'm way off here. But it seems they do come out with a way to do things first which then become a standard that
> they have to follow.
>
> ISL/DOT1Q
> HSRP/VRRP
> etherchannel/LACP
>
> Just some examples..... I'm not aware of too many other vendors that create their own protocol, in which they then become a standard?
>
>
All I found (quickly without trying too hard) is that the IEEE version
is based on Cisco's MISTP rather than PVST.
~Seth
