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VPC=S/MLT?
From: -Hammer- <bhmccie () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:19:31 -0600
OK, So I'm doing a lot of reading lately on Nexus as we are about to get into the 7k/5k game and of course a lot of the marketing revolves around VPC. Every time I see it referenced, I keep remembering a reasonably reliable Nortel implementation called Split MLT (Multi Link Trunk). Is there something fancy here that I'm missing in the docs or am I wrong in equating the two? Isn't VPC just S/MLT? It's just that Cisco has shown up 8 years late and is trying to hype it up to compensate?
-- -Hammer- "I was a normal American nerd" -Jack Herer
Current thread:
- VPC=S/MLT? -Hammer- (Jan 13)
- Re: VPC=S/MLT? Joel jaeggli (Jan 13)
- Re: VPC=S/MLT? -Hammer- (Jan 13)
- Re: VPC=S/MLT? Charles Spurgeon (Jan 13)
- Re: VPC=S/MLT? -Hammer- (Jan 13)
- Re: VPC=S/MLT? -Hammer- (Jan 13)
- Re: VPC=S/MLT? Charles Spurgeon (Jan 14)
- Re: VPC=S/MLT? -Hammer- (Jan 17)
- Re: VPC=S/MLT? joshua sahala (Jan 18)
- Re: VPC=S/MLT? -Hammer- (Jan 18)
- Re: VPC=S/MLT? -Hammer- (Jan 13)
- Re: VPC=S/MLT? -Hammer- (Jan 18)
- Re: VPC=S/MLT? Joel jaeggli (Jan 13)