Re: [c-nsp] Dell switches (specifically PowerConnect 7048P) and Ciscos

2012-11-28 Thread Brandon Ewing
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 03:22:27PM -0500, Chuck Church wrote: > Just curious, is the VLAN mapping to instances the big issue you guys have > with MST? In our deployments we used pretty large ranges to cover growth, > and mapped purposes such as L2-only VLANs (no SVI), servers, users, VoIP, > etc i

Re: [c-nsp] Dell switches (specifically PowerConnect 7048P) and Ciscos

2012-11-27 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 03:22:27PM -0500, Chuck Church wrote: > Just curious, is the VLAN mapping to instances the big issue you guys have > with MST? In our deployments we used pretty large ranges to cover growth, > and mapped purposes such as L2-only VLANs (no SVI), servers, users, VoIP, >

Re: [c-nsp] Dell switches (specifically PowerConnect 7048P) and Ciscos

2012-11-27 Thread Chuck Church
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Dell switches (specifically PowerConnect 7048P) and Ciscos Hi, On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:30:00AM +, Phil Mayers wrote: > Normally I'm not a big fan of "proprietary" protocols, but MST is so > awesomely sucky for Campus environments ("map all your VL

Re: [c-nsp] Dell switches (specifically PowerConnect 7048P) and Ciscos

2012-11-27 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:30:00AM +, Phil Mayers wrote: > Normally I'm not a big fan of "proprietary" protocols, but MST is so > awesomely sucky for Campus environments ("map all your VLANs to > instances before you start, and never change it" - yeah, right!) that we > mandate Cisco co

Re: [c-nsp] Dell switches (specifically PowerConnect 7048P) and Ciscos

2012-11-27 Thread Phil Mayers
On 11/27/2012 03:40 AM, Kell, Jeff wrote: We're doing an eval on some PowerConnect 7048P switches, and have run into spanning tree issues. They don't like PVST, but will spit out STP that "in theory" will revert a Cisco to STP (is this process contagious? or limited to the upstream?). The STP

[c-nsp] Dell switches (specifically PowerConnect 7048P) and Ciscos

2012-11-26 Thread Kell, Jeff
We're doing an eval on some PowerConnect 7048P switches, and have run into spanning tree issues. They don't like PVST, but will spit out STP that "in theory" will revert a Cisco to STP (is this process contagious? or limited to the upstream?). That unfortunately requires an untagged vlan 1 on