On Tuesday 02 February 2010 04:59:55 am Peter Kranz wrote: > It seems like there are a lot of different approaches to > provide some level of self-healing/redundancy to these > layer2 services we offer, I am interested in advice on > which would be most straightforward to implement on top > of our existing layer3 network. > > Perhaps implementing Rapid-PVST is the simplest approach, > but I'd be interested in some best-practices knowledge > here..
If you can support MPLS, I'd recommend that for a "self- healing" control plane to transport Ethernet frames. Else, STP (or some flavor of it) or your vendor's incarnate of the same are your other options. Cheers, Mark.
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