[c-nsp] New Joiner - ME3600X and tools

[Keegan Holley]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Mad Genius <cnsp4dummies at gmail.com> wrote:

> I erased some of the garbage I was reading.
>
> How about building a network that SCALES? How can you build a network that
> scales while deploying VPLS to the access layer?
>

That was kind of the point of the H-VPLS protocol that's listed on the
product page as being supported.  You don't have to mesh the LSP's and you
don't have to flood the traffic down each path.

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> Quite frankly that is a questionable decision and part of the reason VPLS
> isn't supported on the ME3600.
>

I see.  So this is cisco's way of helping me to design my network by selling
me "metro-e" switches that don't support metro-e protocols that they deem
inappropriate.  That actually makes alot more sense when you put it that
way.  I suppose they also wouldn't allow me to use an ASR at my edge either.
 For my own good of course.


>
> Good points about IPv6. The hardware is capable and IPv6 is on the roadmap
> for this year.
>

Ok... I guess I'll return all those routers from other vendors that already
support V6.  Good to know.

>
> Those other boxes you are referring to that "can do it"..... Have you
> actually implemented those NIGHTMARES and dealt with the support? I have.
> Swiss Army knives are only good when you need to open a can of soup in the
> woods.
>

Having dealt with every other metro-e box on the planet, could you
elaborate?

>
> -dummie
>

lol