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Re: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?


From: Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:46:53 -0800

On 1/10/2011 14:32, Jeff Kell wrote:
On 1/10/2011 3:20 PM, Greg Whynott wrote:
HP probably was the most helpful vendor i've dealt with in relation to solving/providing inter vendor 
interoperability solutions.   they have PDF booklets on many  things we would run into during work.  for example,  
setting up STP between Cisco and HP gear,  ( 
http://cdn.procurve.com/training/Manuals/ProCurve-and-Cisco-STP-Interoperability.pdf ).

Well, technically, the HP reference tells you how to convert your Cisco
default PVST over to MST to match the HP preference.

The handful of HP switches versus the stacks and stacks of production
Cisco requiring conversion to suit them was "intimidating" to say the
least :-)



To be fair, one is Cisco proprietary while the other is IEEE 802.1Q.

~Seth


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