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- From: koning@koning.enet.dec.com (Paul Koning)
- Subject: Re: Dec and IEEE Spanning Tree differences
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.160614.9551@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Co., distributed systems architecture
- References: <C01pny.4Kp@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> <1992Dec30.023337.17569@netcom.com> <1992Dec30.133651.16535@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:06:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.133651.16535@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>, b_goodwin@saar.enet.dec.com () writes:
- |>
- |>The DEC All Bridge multicast is 09-00-2B-01-00-00. If you are not using any
- |>DEC propriatary spanning tree bridges, ie LANbrige 100 or Vitalink with
- |>older software, then use the IEEE spanning tree. Actually, If you set up
- |>the CISCO's to use IEEE and the LANbridge 150 does not see any DEC propriatary
- |>spanning tree, it will autoselect IEEE as the protocol.
- |>
- |>Brad Goodwin
- |>DEC Customer Support Center
- |>
- To elaborate slightly on Brad's note:
-
- Every Digital bridge except for the LANbridge-100 contains support BOTH
- for the DEC spanning tree protocol and the IEEE spanning tree protocol.
- Furthermore, by default these bridges will autoconfigure: if a LANbridge-100
- is present in your network (or another -- non-DEC -- bridge set up to
- speak the older protocol) then these bridges will use that protocol. Otherwise,
- they will use the 802.1d spanning tree protocol.
-
- This approach assumes that you do not attempt to mix 802.1d ONLY bridges
- with DEC spanning tree ONLY (i.e., LANbridge-100) bridges on the same
- extended LAN. As has been pointed out, such a mix could cause unresolved
- loops, and the autoconfiguring bridges can't help fix that. If you're very
- careful, such mixed configurations can be made to work, of course, but my
- recommendation is that you avoid them.
-
- If you have only two of the three possible bridges types (LB100 plus
- autoconfiguring, or 802.1d plus autoconfiguring) in your extended LAN, the
- autoconfiguration will select the appropriate protocol and everyone will
- be using the same one.
-
- Finally, note that you can override the autoconfiguration via network
- management: you can force the Digital bridges to use 802.1d spanning
- tree protocol unconditionally. This is useful in the mixed configuration,
- if you absolutely must use it.
-
- paul
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