[c-nsp] stp on me3600 on efp's with locally connected older switch

[Nick Hilliard]

On 24/01/2013 21:05, Reuben Farrelly wrote:
> Aside from that, the restriction about only being able to peer with MSTP
> across EFP's is a pretty horrendous one, I was really surprised to find
> that even Cisco's Rapid PVST isn't supported and it's not on the roadmap :-(

This isn't surprising.  An me3600 can handle up to 4000 bridge domains
(http://goo.gl/0gz4n), each with their own topology, but only supports 128
rstp instances (http://goo.gl/RLQ05).  While rstp has more flexibility than
mst, it doesn't scale very well.

Nick