Dell Force 10 and Cisco Nexus

Question

Hi

Please assist me to find the problem, I have connected a Dell Force 10 switch to a Cisco Nexus 5000, the Nexus is running MSTP and the Dell switch is running basic spanning tree, the problem is when they are interconnected, the ports are blocked, not sure if it is a problem of Spanning tree.

I was reading this article

https://hasanmansur.com/2012/10/15/cisco-and-force10-stp-spanning-tree-interoperability/

Between the devices we have a port channel.

Thank you so much

edmat · Answer

Thank you so much Daniel for your reply. Attached you will find a picture of the topology.

edmat · Answer

Thank you so much Daniel for your reply, attached you will find a picture related to the diagram.

edmat · Answer

Hi Daniel,

Thank you so much again for the follow up, Currently I have not the configuration but it is port channel:

Port in hybrid mode

switchport

vlt-peer-lag port-channel

and big MTU 9xxx

The Cisco is just connected to Force 10.

edmat · Answer

Thank you so much Daniel

edmat · Answer

Hi Daniel, just a question, how the STP can be disabled on the interfaces?

edmat · Answer

Thank you, You are right, I was thinking the same about STP, do you have the recommended configuration for LACP under the Dell F10 interfaces connected to Cisco? or any documentation? Thank you again

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