> Rod Beck wrote: > > What is EAPS? > > A joke of a "standard" and something to be avoided at all costs. I > would echo the last part about Extreme switches too.
Disagree. I don't believe anybody would claim EAPS is a "standard" just because an RFC has been published. In any case, EAPS is working quite well for us, with rapid L2 rerouting in ring based structures. And *much* simpler than RSTP/MST. Or VPLS, for that matter. As for Extreme switches - they have their strengths and weaknesses, just like any other product. We use lots of Summit X450/X450a, for L2 only, and have been generally reasonably happy with them. If I could buy a similarly featured product from Cisco, for a similar price, I might well choose Cisco. But at least in our case Cisco *doesn't* have a competitive product (case in point: ME3400 - too few ports, too few MAC addresses, funky licensing even if you just want to do simple QinQ). Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no
