[c-nsp] Deploying MSTP

[Frédéric Loui]

If you have a complex L2 topology and lots of VLAN per instance. VLANs per MST instance can become tedious. Might be worth to use some configuration/check scripts so as to make sure that all VLANs are bound to the right MST instance.

My 2 cents ...
-- Frédéric

Le 27 déc. 2011 à 23:13, Jay Nakamura <zeusdadog at gmail.com> a écrit :

> We have made a pretty clear decision on sticking with one vendor and
> not inter-operate on MSTP level.  So we are safe on that front.
> 
> Our long term goal is to move to some kind of MPLS Ethernet tunneling
> at some point and not rely on STP as much as possible but our budget
> does not allow it yet.  In the mean time we have to use STP to achieve
> redundancy.
> 
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Mack McBride <mack.mcbride at viawest.com> wrote:
>> Interactions with legacy gear that does not support MSTP or does not support it the same way.
>> That is the biggest headache during transition.
>> After transition the biggest headache is making vlan changes as you noted.
>> 
>> LR Mack McBride
>> Network Architect
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jay Nakamura
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 2:16 PM
>> To: cisco-nsp
>> Subject: [c-nsp] Deploying MSTP
>> 
>> Are there anything special with MSTP that I should consider in deploying in a network?
>> 
>> Only thing I can think of is to pre-configure VLANs for future use since topology will re-converge every time you add a VLAN to the MSTP instance.
>> 
>> Any other special issues I should be looking out for?
>> 
>> Thanks!
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