[c-nsp] Learning L2 switching and spanning tree by doing

[A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk]

Hi,

> If you can find a "FM" that discusses converting from, say, default PVST 
> to cross-vendor MST, on a live network across a large campus without an 
> engineer in every closet with a laptop, serial console, and cell phone, 
> let me know :-)

no such book or doc as far as i'm aware. but i did recently convert our
whole network from PVST to Rapid PVST (RPVST or PVRST depending
on which cisco resource you look). which was a painless migration
and offers much much better logical handling, removes the need for
uplink-fast and backbone-fast etc etc.  very nice. oh, and if you 
have eg HP, its okay - though HP do have a little paper about interopping
HP with cisco when using RPVST (where they go on about MST.....)

alan