On 03/29/2011 02:01 PM, Randy Cosby wrote:
Spent a day playing with STP and got it optimized quite a bit -- until
we tried to put vlans into the mix. We like to run a separate vlan to
each tower. Cisco just wants to do pvstp or mstp, not the ancient stp
protocol. Why doesn't Mikrotik support pvstp or mstp?
You're asking me? lol. Maybe for the same reason they don't support
the LONG list of things that I have asked them for....they don't want to
(yet?). You have only a few options:
1. Don't do vlan. Find some other way to segment your traffic.
2. Place a 3560 (or other cisco switch) at each tower and run your
bridging protocol from there.
3. Wait for MT to support your preferred protocol (may be a LONG wait)
4. Replace the Cisco device with a MT device that can support a bridge
protocol that can handle the vlan traffic. Maybe you can make this work
with MT's HWMP+ (not compatible with standard HWMP) meshing protocol.
For me, I always opt to work around limitations in the tool I use to
build the network. In this case, that would leave the above choices.
Personally, I'd like to see them implement proper (and complete) IPv6
support ahead of ANY work on bridging protocols, but my wishes carry as
much weight there as do yours.
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