[c-nsp] Dell switches (specifically PowerConnect 7048P) and Ciscos

[Kell, Jeff]

We're doing an eval on some PowerConnect 7048P switches, and have run into spanning tree issues.  They don't like PVST, but will spit out STP that "in theory" will revert a Cisco to STP (is this process contagious?  or limited to the upstream?).

That unfortunately requires an untagged vlan 1 on all trunk ports (breaks our standards and would require a mass reconfiguration).

You can also try MST if you want to convert (again, breaks our standards and would require a mass reconfiguration).

Otherwise they seem quite tolerable and have some attractive features...  but I'm not quite sold if it requires a campus-wide mass reconfiguration to get along with existing gear.

Jeff