[e-nsp] building an EAPS ring on both Extremeware and XOS

[Mike Hughes]

--On 09 July 2007 12:21 +0200 Teun Vink <teun at moonblade.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm currently running several EAPS rings on 5 Alpine 3804's running
> Extremeware 7.3.2.3. We're going to replace these 3804's with new Summit
> x450's running XOS 12.x and I'm looking for a way to do this migration
> smoothly.
>         
> Since we can't do a big bang scenario in which we replace all Alpines
> with Summits, I'm looking at a way to add the Summits to current
> topology so I can replace the old switches one by one.
>         
> What I'm especially interested in is if anyone here has any experiences
> in running EAPS on a mix of Extremeware and XOS.

Yep, works fine. No issues experienced.

Did this during a transition between BD6800 and BD8800s.

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Mike Hughes     Chief Technical Officer  London Internet Exchange
mike at linx.net   http://www.linx.net/