| Title: | FDDI - The Next Generation |
| Moderator: | NETCAD::STEFANI |
| Created: | Thu Apr 27 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2259 |
| Total number of notes: | 8590 |
Is the Gigaswitch an IEEE spanning tree only bridge ? The customer is
planning to use the Gigaswitch in a network which has many many bridges
made by Cisco, DEC, RAD, Proteon, Vitalink and many others. Some of
the bridges can talk DEC spanning tree only. Does this mean he needs to
get rid of those DEC spanning tree bridges only ?
Alphonse
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1289.1 | 802.1d only | 4286::MDLYONS | Michael D. Lyons - Young enough and dumb enough | Thu Mar 24 1994 10:31 | 8 |
The GIGAswitch supports 802.1d spanning tree and does not support
DEC spanning tree. You can mix them in some configurations if you're
*very* careful, but this is not generally a good idea, and is not
recommended.
This is discussed in the GIGAswitch release notes for BL1.0.
FYI - The GIGAswitch notes conference is at SCHOOL::GIGASWITCH
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| 1289.2 | 4286::MDLYONS | Michael D. Lyons - Young enough and dumb enough | Thu Mar 24 1994 10:34 | 2 | |
P.S. I'd be surprised if most of those vendors bridges which you
mentioned didn't support 802.1d as well as DEC spanning tree...
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| 1289.3 | KONING::KONING | Paul Koning, B-16504 | Thu Mar 24 1994 18:08 | 4 | |
The right recommendation is NOT to mix spanning trees. So you need 802.1d capable bridges. The alternative really is too ugly... paul | |||||