Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?

[sethm at rollernet.us (Seth Mattinen)]

On 1/10/2011 14:32, Jeff Kell wrote:
> 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-Interoperability.pdf ).
> 
> 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 :-)
> 


To be fair, one is Cisco proprietary while the other is IEEE 802.1Q.

~Seth