ISL is Cisco proprietary. 802.1Q is an open standard so that would be the
way to connect the boxes. Check out "Cisco LAN Switching" by Clark and
Hamilton.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SH Wesson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 12:03 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: trunking [7:6123]
>
>
> My environment is currently running Cabletron equipment that
> has trunking
> set to 802.1q. I'm putting in a new Catalyst 6500 switch and
> will be tieing
> that into the Cabletron network. My question is, since I'm
> not going to
> trunk between the two but just to have a cross connect to communicate
> between the two networks, should I be using ISL trunking on
> the Cisco switch
> or should I be using 802.1q so that it is compatible with the
> Cabletron
> network. In addition, if I do use 802.1q trunking, will that
> mess up the
> Cabltron side. Thanks.
>
>
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