If you have a complex L2 topology and lots of VLAN per instance. VLANs per MST instance can become tedious. Might be worth to use some configuration/check scripts so as to make sure that all VLANs are bound to the right MST instance.
My 2 cents ... -- Frédéric Le 27 déc. 2011 à 23:13, Jay Nakamura <zeusda...@gmail.com> a écrit : > We have made a pretty clear decision on sticking with one vendor and > not inter-operate on MSTP level. So we are safe on that front. > > Our long term goal is to move to some kind of MPLS Ethernet tunneling > at some point and not rely on STP as much as possible but our budget > does not allow it yet. In the mean time we have to use STP to achieve > redundancy. > > On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Mack McBride <mack.mcbr...@viawest.com> > wrote: >> Interactions with legacy gear that does not support MSTP or does not support >> it the same way. >> That is the biggest headache during transition. >> After transition the biggest headache is making vlan changes as you noted. >> >> LR Mack McBride >> Network Architect >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net >> [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jay Nakamura >> Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 2:16 PM >> To: cisco-nsp >> Subject: [c-nsp] Deploying MSTP >> >> Are there anything special with MSTP that I should consider in deploying in >> a network? >> >> Only thing I can think of is to pre-configure VLANs for future use since >> topology will re-converge every time you add a VLAN to the MSTP instance. >> >> Any other special issues I should be looking out for? >> >> Thanks! >> _______________________________________________ >> cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp >> archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
