DYNES-Deployments

[Jay Ford <>]

On Fri, 17 May 2013, Byron L. Hicks wrote:
> In a mixed architecture such as DYNES, ION, or the new AL2S, we should
> stick to standards based protocols.  Proprietary protocols such as PVST+
> can be dangerous and disruptive.

I'll make a more general observation that in an internetwork consisting of
multiple domains of control, layer-2 short-cuts can be dangerous and
disruptive.

Why do we build junk like this which undermines all the existing inter-domain
solutions & re-creates problems which then need to be solved again?

Argh.

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