On 1/10/2011 3:20 PM, Greg Whynott wrote:
HP probably was the most helpful vendor i've dealt with in relation to solving/providing inter vendor interoperability solutions. they have PDF booklets on many things we would run into during work. for example, setting up STP between Cisco and HP gear, ( http://cdn.procurve.com/training/Manuals/ProCurve-and-Cisco-STP-Interoperabi... ).
Well, technically, the HP reference tells you how to convert your Cisco default PVST over to MST to match the HP preference. The handful of HP switches versus the stacks and stacks of production Cisco requiring conversion to suit them was "intimidating" to say the least :-) Foundry/Brocade on the other hand do PVST (so they say, I haven't given it a thorough lab test). Jeff