[c-nsp] MST Experiences: was Re: Dell switches (specifically PowerConnect 7048P) and Ciscos

Bernie zenbernie at gmail.com
Wed Nov 28 14:48:29 EST 2012


I too am a Dell network geek. I've supported Force10 S4810s being installed
into a RPVST+ environment and it was painless. The doc does a very good job
of explaining corner cases people might be concerned about.


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 1:36 PM, <Vinny_Abello at dell.com> wrote:

> Dell FTOS has PVST on our Force10 switches. I won't claim familiarity with
> it or differences to Cisco PVST+ as I don't work in the F10 group, but I
> know it's there. I can find a Dell F10 contact for you if you have
> questions about it. Interoperability testing has been done and documented
> here:
>
>
> http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/DELL_Force10_Interoperability_Guide.pdf
>
> -Vinny
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:
> cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Phil Mayers
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 7:34 AM
> To: Reuben Farrelly
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] MST Experiences: was Re: Dell switches (specifically
> PowerConnect 7048P) and Ciscos
>
> On 27/11/12 12:27, Reuben Farrelly wrote:
>
> >
> > What vendors, other than Cisco, support some form of Rapid-PVST?  I
> > believe Arista do on their switches - are there any others?  If it's
>
> Extreme, Foundry, HP in older firmware (newer firmware dropped it in
> favour of MST, IIRC - sigh). I think it's pretty widespread, TBH.
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