[c-nsp] VSS - Horror stories, show-stoppers, other personal experience?

[Alexander Clouter]

* Murphy, William <William.Murphy at uth.tmc.edu> [2011-06-21 12:43:24-0500]:
>
> We have been using L3 access for a couple of years and it does work quite
> well, but we are migrating away from it due to the fact that IPv6 forwarding
> in hardware is not doable on our access-layer switches, and it'd cost a
> bundle to upgrade everything.  For one of my larger buildings, upgrading to
> VSS and moving routing to the distribution was a lot cheaper than buying 45
> Sup7's for my 4500 access-layer switches so I can do IPv6 in hardware...
> 
Ah, we have C3750's at the edge and soon to move to C3750X's.  Part of 
the reason to move to L3 was the ~80 IPTV channels we have, and to 
banish spanning-tree from our network as best we could.

Other people I notice seemed swayed to VSS to get the high port density 
(datacentre reasons) which simply does not apply to us.

Cheers

-- 
Alexander Clouter
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