[148390] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VPC=S/MLT?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Spurgeon)
Fri Jan 13 15:11:16 2012
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:10:00 -0600
From: Charles Spurgeon <c.spurgeon@mail.utexas.edu>
To: -Hammer- <bhmccie@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F108849.8040002@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: Charles Spurgeon <c.spurgeon@mail.utexas.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 01:38:26PM -0600, -Hammer- wrote:
> 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.
These two docs provide a lot of details:
vPC fundamental concepts:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9670/C07-572835-00_NX-OS_vPC_DG.pdf
"Data Center Access Design with Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches and 2000 Series Fabric Extenders and Virtual PortChannels Updated to Cisco NX-OS Software Release 5.1(3)N1(1):
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9670/C07-572829-01_Design_N5K_N2K_vPC_DG.pdf
-Charles
Charles E. Spurgeon / UTnet
UT Austin ITS / Networking
c.spurgeon@its.utexas.edu / 512.475.9265
