[c-nsp] backup with STP

[David J. Hughes]

The only words I would say about MST are - DON'T GO THERE.

If your environment is capable of running Rapid PVST then it is 
certainly what you want to be running.  RPVST+ extends the PVST+ that 
you know and love to include rapid response to topology changes.  MST 
gives you a totally different set of semantics (and issues/problems) to 
get your head around.  Remember you no longer have an STP instance per 
vlan.  The interaction with anything in your network that doesn't speak 
MST can be troublesome and "interesting" to say the least.  RPVST+ is 
the end-game and MST was a bump in the road on the way.


David
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On 28/09/2005, at 9:11 PM, Maxim Tuliuk wrote:

> ok
> could you say some words about mstp? is it better or worse than 
> rapid-pvst?
>
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at  7:40 -0400, Dave Temkin wrote:
>> Yes, rapid-pvst and regular STP are directly inter-compatible.  The
>> rapid-pvst switch will run in regular STP mode for the ports 
>> connected to
>> the client switch.
>>
>> -- 
>> David Temkin
>>
>> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Maxim Tuliuk wrote:
>>
>>> Hello!
>>> Our client connects to us using switch and two different fiber links.
>>> Client's switch supports Spanning Tree (802.1D) only, on my side - 
>>> catalyst
>>> 3550 (now: mode rapid-pvst).
>>> Can I build L2 backup using stp?
>>>
>>
>
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