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 -- USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! //www.muc.de/~gert/ Gert Doering - Munich, Germany g...@greenie.muc.de fax: +49-89-35655025 g...@net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
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