On 1/10/2011 14:32, Jeff Kell wrote: > On 1/10/2011 3:20 PM, Greg Whynott wrote: >> HP probably was the most helpful vendor i've dealt with in relation to >> solving/providing inter vendor interoperability solutions. they have PDF >> booklets on many things we would run into during work. for example, >> setting up STP between Cisco and HP gear, ( >> http://cdn.procurve.com/training/Manuals/ProCurve-and-Cisco-STP-Interoperability.pdf >> ). > > Well, technically, the HP reference tells you how to convert your Cisco > default PVST over to MST to match the HP preference. > > The handful of HP switches versus the stacks and stacks of production > Cisco requiring conversion to suit them was "intimidating" to say the > least :-) >
To be fair, one is Cisco proprietary while the other is IEEE 802.1Q. ~Seth
