[148389] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VPC=S/MLT?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Fri Jan 13 15:09:04 2012
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: Joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:10:49 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4F1086AC.9050201@bogus.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 13 Jan 2012, at 19:35, "Joel jaeggli" <joelja@bogus.com> 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 ge=
t
>> into the 7k/5k game and of course a lot of the marketing revolves aroun=
d
>> 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 i=
n
>> 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?
>=20
> vpc/vlt/mlag/s/mlt
>=20
I am using the Brocade version, Multi Chassis Trunking (MCT), and it reall=
y does make things a lot nicer.
--
Leigh Porter
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