Hi,

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:27:08PM +1100, Reuben Farrelly wrote:
> What vendors, other than Cisco, support some form of Rapid-PVST?  I 

Juniper does, both on MX "not-so-switches" and on EX.

> believe Arista do on their switches - are there any others?  If it's 
> proprietary, did Arista license it from Cisco or...?  It seems so 
> patently obvious that PVST would be a smart idea, yet so few vendors 
> seem to support it.  What gives?

"If we do not implement it but bash Cisco for being non-standard instead,
we save money in R&D and can make it look like it's all Cisco's fault!"

It *is* blatantly obvious and logical, but "there is no standard document
that says you should it do that way".

gert
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