virtual switches

Mon Jul 19 01:09:43 UTC 2010

On 17/07/2010, at 2:18 AM, Greg Whynott wrote:

> Cisco has VSS (on 6500 class) and H3C has IRF;   allowing you to virtualize 2 or more physical switches/routers in an active/active configuration where you can use all links and terminate LACP aggregates between the two devices.   Is anyone using this or similar technology from another vendor?   any recommendations or comments would be appreciated.  thanks very much for your time!
> 
> -g

Juniper also has Virtual Chassis support on the EX-series. The MX also supports active/active multi chassis-LAG. It works as you would expect, as you setup an ICCP link between the MX's.

Truman