Heavy Networking | May 30, 2010
Show 05 – Deep Diving on Data Centre Switching – Trill, RBridges, and Ethernet – Oh My
Ethan
Banks
Greg
Ferro
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We started out looking at new Juniper switches after this article on the Register Juniper rolls out multi-product attack on Cisco
Somehow we got into discussion of Data Centre switches and then we started deep diving into Data Centre Ethernet and the Death of Spanning Tree. On the way we took a detour through why Catalyst C6500 aren’t so great but are a universal workhorse, and some of the limitations of the Nexus 7000 platform and spend some time musing on the vagaries of IOS and its differences on different hardware platforms.
We took a quick look at the IOS Naming Conventions on IOS in Version 15.0 after Ivan Pepelnjak posted some information. IOS Release Numbering at IOS Hints.
EtherealMind on Network Fabric:TRILL for Server and Network People. Welcome RBridges
FibreChannel over TCP/IP IETF RFC 3821
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