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RSTP interoperability with ToughSwitch

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 12:55 am
by yahel
One of our networks makes heavy use of ToughSwitch units > 50 of them (both 5 ports and 8 ports).
Much of this network depend on UBNT's RSTP implementation with careful settings of ports' priorities, and path-costs to ensure a stable steady state.
I wish to gradually swap out ToughSwitches for Netonix switches - what sort of interoperability issues are we to expect on the RTSP front?
Has anyone done this, or are we trailblazing here?

Re: RSTP interoperability with ToughSwitch

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 1:17 am
by sirhc
We followed the 802.1D, 801.1s, and 802.1w standards so as long as they did they should work together?

Well to be honest we followed IEEE 802.1Q-2014 because even though we have not yet implemented it the switch is capable of MSTP or multiple spanning tree.

Re: RSTP interoperability with ToughSwitch

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 6:08 pm
by yahel
Okay - sounds good...
I'm still really worried...
We'll know for sure in a week or so...
Thanks!

Re: RSTP interoperability with ToughSwitch

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 6:26 pm
by sirhc
Let us know

Re: RSTP interoperability with ToughSwitch

Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 11:58 am
by mike99
I already tryed and it worked.

Be sure to have a VLAN untag on port with RSTP enable on the toughswitch else STP won't detect the loop. It's not a compatibility issue since it's happen between 2 toughswitchs. Ubnt just don't care about this problem, I writed to them several time and support only answered that engineer are check it. I reported the problem 8~9 month ago. Anyway, if it work right now, I presume your not using only tagged port on some port.