Re: new version of 802.1q?

[Eric Fairfield]

We refer to it as Spanning Forest at Ctron.  We have implemented it but using proprietary extensions at this point much like Cisco has.  As soon as 802.1s is standard we will do the same. "Andy Harding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 01a401bfcf28$864e67b0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:01a401bfcf28$864e67b0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... spot on - draft available at:   ftp://p8021:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/8021/s-drafts/d4/802-1s-d4.pdf   don't know about spanning forest tho...;-)   cheers   Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: Eric Fairfield Newsgroups: groupstudy.cisco To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 3:38 PM Subject: Re: new version of 802.1q? I believe 802.1s is the standards group working on Spanning Forest (per vlan stp) "Andy Harding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 01f801bfce8a$c41bace0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:01f801bfce8a$c41bace0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... have been having (semi) argument at work about dot1q versus ISL   my understanding is that dot 1q runs one instance of spanning tree per trunk, rather than per vlan as ISL does - hence if one VLAN is blocking then dot1q disables the entire trunk   A collegue of mine reckons that dot 1q now does as per ISL and runs STP on a per-vlan basis, but the 802.1q spec has changed without the # changing   someone help me out here...   thanks   Andy