On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 05:00:36PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote: > <rant> > MST is what comes out if vendor committees get together, and agree to > implement the least common determinator in the most complicated way. > </rant>
I completely disagree - it's what comes out of solving problems related to the LAN - the LOCAL area network. In virtualized LANs, there's typically only a few possible physical topologies that can exist. MST seeks to exploit this to lower the amount of processing power that is required. My employer is a datacenter service provider and this holds in our scenario - there's only ever two possible physical topologies. Two distribution routers each have a connection to hundreds of access switches. We started out by mapping what VLANs went to which physical topology and we're done forever. It's great - we get redundancy everywhere and mostly even load balancing. If your network doesn't behave like this, then you need a better control plane than MST can provide. But don't complain about standards bodies just because they solved a problem that doesn't concern you. -- Ross Vandegrift [email protected] "If the fight gets hot, the songs get hotter. If the going gets tough, the songs get tougher." --Woody Guthrie _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
