[c-nsp] Fabricpath on Nexus

[Tim Stevenson]

At 12:41 PM 3/28/2011, Asbjorn Hojmark - Lists uttered:

> > We are considering deploying a pair of Nexus 7010 switches using
> > fabricpath for L2 and HSRP for Layer 3.
>
>If it really is only two boxes, FabricPath provides *no* benefits,


For one thing you could provide up to 256 10G links between two 
boxes, something you could not do with STP.


>only more complexity...

FP config is certainly no more complex than STP. What makes you think 
it's complex? Have you ever configured it?

Tim

>  If you want to use FabricPath for anything
>useful today, you have to use Nexus 7000 access switches as well,
>and more than two aggregation switches.
>-A
>
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Tim Stevenson, tstevens at cisco.com
Routing & Switching CCIE #5561
Distinguished Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco Nexus 7000
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