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Re: VPC=S/MLT?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel jaeggli)
Fri Jan 13 14:32:51 2012
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:31:56 -0800
From: Joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: -Hammer- <bhmccie@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F1083C3.9030804@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 1/13/12 11:19 , -Hammer- wrote:
> OK, So I'm doing a lot of reading lately on Nexus as we are about to get
> into the 7k/5k game and of course a lot of the marketing revolves around
> VPC. Every time I see it referenced, I keep remembering a reasonably
> reliable Nortel implementation called Split MLT (Multi Link Trunk). Is
> there something fancy here that I'm missing in the docs or am I wrong in
> equating the two? Isn't VPC just S/MLT? It's just that Cisco has shown
> up 8 years late and is trying to hype it up to compensate?
vpc/vlt/mlag/s/mlt
