DYNES-Deployments

["Dale W. Carder" <>]

Thus spake Byron L. Hicks 
()
 on Fri, May 17, 2013 at 03:29:51PM -0500:
> 
> 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.

This has absolutely nothing to do with one protocol being proprietary 
or not.

When any two interdomain sites are peering you need to pay attention 
to the fine details.  This is true whether for BGP or in this case 
Spanning Tree.  Both give you the tools to inflict damage.  

For example, you probably don't want to accept arbitrary BPDU's any more
than you would accept arbitrary NLRI's.

Dale