I actually did this a few months back and it worked fine... although you
will get speed and duplex errors on the 6500 even if they're manually set
(at least with the Cabletron 9000 series switch). It didn't have any ill
results so no big deal.
Jeff
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> 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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