[148388] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VPC=S/MLT?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (-Hammer-)
Fri Jan 13 14:39:40 2012
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:38:49 -0600
From: -Hammer- <bhmccie@gmail.com>
To: Joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F1086AC.9050201@bogus.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Wow. A fellow greybeard. OK. That's what I needed to know. I'm trying to
understand if VPC has any more recent enhancements that weren't around
for some older multi-chassis channel methods but I don't see anything
specific in the docs other than some FHRP (HSRP only it appears) and PIM
tweaks. If anyone has some really deep docs on VPC I'd appreciate the
links. Thanks.
-Hammer-
"I was a normal American nerd"
-Jack Herer
On 1/13/2012 1:31 PM, Joel jaeggli wrote:
> 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
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