RE: ISL Trunking vs dot1q

From: Asbjorn Hojmark (Asbjorn@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Mar 01 2001 - 20:23:21 GMT-3


   
> In regard to dot1q, I was playing around with a Cat6509 and
> noticed GARP and GVRP. Looking a little further, it looks like
> it supplies similar services as VTP (i.e VLAN configuration
> exchange between switches). Has anyone tinkered with this?

Yes, you might say GVRP is the standardised way of doing VTP.
I tend to prefer VTP over GVRP since all Cisco-boxes support
VTP.

I hope to test GVRP between Cisco and Extreme switches one of
these days.

-A

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