If you're trying to eliminate STP, try Flexlink... which the Nexus 5010 doesn't support, but the 5500 series (apparently) does. 3750X does support Flexlink it seems.
*Skeeve Stevens, CEO* eintellego Pty Ltd ske...@eintellego.net ; www.eintellego.net <http://www.eintellego.net.au> Phone: 1300 753 383 ; Fax: (+612) 8572 9954 Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; skype://skeeve facebook.com/eintellego twitter.com/networkceoau ; www.linkedin.com/in/skeeve PO Box 7726, Baulkham Hills, NSW 1755 Australia The Experts Who The Experts Call Juniper - Cisco – IBM On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Tony Varriale <tvarri...@comcast.net>wrote: > On 5/19/2012 6:47 AM, Lee wrote: > >> On 5/19/12, Saku Ytti<s...@ytti.fi> wrote: >> >>> On (2012-05-18 14:55 -0400), David Coulson wrote: >>> >>> Does anyone have any solid experience with 3750X switches, or >>>> stacking in a datacenter in general? I've seen plenty of stacks for >>>> >>> We've had quite many 3750 stacks, and we do see more problems in them >>> than >>> in other 3750 stacks. >>> Particularly dangerous events are adding or removing members from stack. >>> >>> Also we've seen software defects which only affect stacks, like memory >>> leakage on SNMP polling. >>> >>> Generally, do not add software complexity to the network if you have any >>> practical alternative. STP while PITA, is tried and true and it actually >>> does work in CSCO when configured right. So unless you absolutely need >>> the >>> extra interconnect capacity, go with STP. >>> >> How about VSS? We're considering it mainly because it would eliminate STP >> > VSS doesn't eliminate STP. Neither does vPC. So, you may want to > reconsider. > > tv > ______________________________**_________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/**mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp<https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp> > archive at > http://puck.nether.net/**pipermail/cisco-nsp/<http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/> > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/