Caldera gave me my excuse. I won a laptop (drawing) from their booth at Networld+Interop a couple of years ago, but the laptop came with Win98 pre-installed. I asked the guys if they'd give me a copy of Caldera to install on it and they said no, I'd have to pay for it!
Thanks for the laptop, but my time and money's worth more than that cheap nonesense.
Is this flamebait or what? Maybe it's just an un-informed comment that got a high rank because it sounds informative. Here are a few useful details:
1) PVST can be turned off on Cisco gear so that you only have one spanning-tree for the whole network if that's what you want. However, you should consider that unless you have every VLAN on every switch, PVST actually saves your processor by creating smaller spanning-trees that reconverge independently. Without PVST, there's only one spanning-tree and it has to reconverge anytime there's trouble with any equipment on the layer-2 network.
2) I used to say the same thing about Cisco's line of L3 switches because they had nothing to compare with Foundry's gear. However, in the last year or two, they've introduced several new products, including the Catalyst 3550 which happens to be one of my favorites now. These new products compare very nicely with Foundry (and others) and if I'm already using Cisco for WAN connections, it's all the same to me to use Cisco for the LAN to be consistent.
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Caldera gave me my excuse. I won a laptop (drawing) from their booth at Networld+Interop a couple of years ago, but the laptop came with Win98 pre-installed. I asked the guys if they'd give me a copy of Caldera to install on it and they said no, I'd have to pay for it!
Thanks for the laptop, but my time and money's worth more than that cheap nonesense.
Is this flamebait or what? Maybe it's just an un-informed comment that got a high rank because it sounds informative. Here are a few useful details:
1) PVST can be turned off on Cisco gear so that you only have one spanning-tree for the whole network if that's what you want. However, you should consider that unless you have every VLAN on every switch, PVST actually saves your processor by creating smaller spanning-trees that reconverge independently. Without PVST, there's only one spanning-tree and it has to reconverge anytime there's trouble with any equipment on the layer-2 network.
2) I used to say the same thing about Cisco's line of L3 switches because they had nothing to compare with Foundry's gear. However, in the last year or two, they've introduced several new products, including the Catalyst 3550 which happens to be one of my favorites now. These new products compare very nicely with Foundry (and others) and if I'm already using Cisco for WAN connections, it's all the same to me to use Cisco for the LAN to be consistent.