[j-nsp] ex vstp and cisco pvst

Ing. Jozef Klacko jozef.klacko at korex.sk
Wed Apr 11 04:20:56 EDT 2012


Hi,

There could be an guide for this:

http://www.google.sk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCoQFjAA&
url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.juniper.net%2Fus%2Fen%2Flocal%2Fpdf%2Fimplementation-gu
ides%2F8010002-en.pdf&ei=ajyFT4aeNcfk4QTu8PXFBw&usg=AFQjCNFYjlui3rxm97ebrago
mLGvG8UNWg&sig2=NS2-vPa6wlGM5ze6sncdBA

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Ing. Jozef Klačko
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-----Original Message-----
From: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Misha Gzirishvili
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 1:18 AM
To: Mohammad
Cc: manafo at gmail.com; juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [j-nsp] ex vstp and cisco pvst

Hi there, If I remember correctly, vlan1 do not works well between C and J.
due to mac address mismatches in BPDU.
Use edge ports on acess ports to prevent unwanted calculations, Use spanning
tree pathcost method long on cisco to adjust costs. And use rapid pvst on
Cisco.
HTH.

Regards,
Misha
On Apr 10, 2012 9:51 PM, "Mohammad" <masalbad at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All
>
>
>
> We have a layer 2 ring consists of 7 cisco 3750 ME switches terminated 
> on two juniper EX4200 switches (EX-Primary) and (EX-Backup); the 
> backhaul from EX-Primary to our HQ is fiber, while we are using a 
> backup microwave link from EX-Backup to HQ. we have configured vstp on 
> both EX switches and we have increased the link costs on the backup EX 
> in order to block the port on the backup EX so that the traffic goes 
> to primary EX and then through the fiber link to HQ. we have checked 
> the that ports are blocked from the backup EX,,and everything is 
> working as it should be.
>
> The problem is once we configure vstp on the EX switches we see the 
> cpu utilization reached 100% for a short period of time and then every 
> things goes fine, another thing we've noticed suddenly when there is a 
> topology change in the network the EX malfunction for a short period 
> of time and then gets back to normal operation !!!!
>
> We are using pvst on the cisco switches.switch port trunk allowed vlan
> 11,12,13 , etc. is configured on the cisco trunk port
>
> Vlan 1 is not configured on the juniper switches.vstp vlan all is 
> configured on the juniper switch
>
> The question is:
>
> Shall we configure vlan1 on the juniper switches and put it as a 
> native vlan on the trunk port facing the cisco switches and also on 
> the trunk port connecting the two juniper switches?
>
> Shall we configure rapid pvst on the cisco switches instead of normal
pvst?
>
> Any better ideas?
>
>
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Mohammad Salbad
>
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