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Re: VPC=S/MLT?


From: -Hammer- <bhmccie () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:06:08 -0600

Charles,
The first link references "chapter 3". I found chapter 5 as well but I can't find the full index. Do you have that link by any chance?

-Hammer-

"I was a normal American nerd"
-Jack Herer



On 1/13/2012 2:10 PM, Charles Spurgeon wrote:
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



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