[c-nsp] Spanning-Tree vs. EoMPLS links in SXI2?

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:25:56PM +1000, David Hughes wrote:
> On 11/03/2010, at 11:00 PM, Gert Doering wrote:
> 
> > (Well, actually you can, by plugging a loop between two ports, one port 
> > being a switchport/trunk and the other port being the EoMPLS link.  But that
> > won't gain me much compared to what I have now - if the IOS combination
> > is broken with STP+EoMPLS, it will also be broken if that IOS is running
> > on R1...)
> 
> Hate to admit it but I just ran this up on s720/SXI3 boxes.  Short lived 
> EoMPLS requirement at a site.  The whole "external loopback" design is 
> such a hack.  But, what can I say, it's ugly but it works, 

Yes, seconded - it's ugly but it works.  I have to use this in other places,
but it's not really making the configuration any easier to understand for
my junior colleagues.

> and it's passing MST BPDUs just fine.

Now that is good news :-) - what line card are you terminating the EoMPLS
on?  (I'm asking because I'm wondering whether our problem is specific to
6724-SFP)

gert

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