Best Practice for configuring HP procurve with Cisco switch

[Srinivasalu.r]

Hi,
Can any one help me what is the best practice for configuring HP procurve with Cisco.

1.what type of STP we want to use in both procurve switch & cisco switch.(whther we want to use mst in both the switch or we can use any other method)
2.we will configure tagged port in procurve & trunck port in cisco for connecting uplinks.(any configuration is required in cisco & procurve other then this)
3.how to configure trunck port in procurve for load balancing in uplinks which is connected to cisco.
4.did HP 5412’s support a forced version of STP which is compatible with our existing cisco PVST.

in above setup core switch is cisco & we are using Procurve as access switch.

if any one give command line for this it will be great help....

[DSV12 · Accepted solution]

http://www.tecnocael.it/ftp/docs/ProCurve_Cisco.pdf

http://h10144.www1.hp.com/NR/rdonlyres/10D845B6-45CC-40E4-986F-F71A5EE6D992/0/InteroperatingwithCiscosRPVSTSpanningTreeProtocolinaHighAvailabilityTopology_Dec_07_WW_E.pdf

http://cdn.procurve.com/training/Manuals/ProCurve-and-Cisco-STP-Interoperability.pdf

http://h10146.www1.hp.com/docs/training/HP-Networking-and-Cisco-CLI-Reference-Guide_June_10_WW_Eng_ltr.pdf


HP Procurve doesn't support PVST+. I think that best option will be MSTP for HP & Cisco.

Link aggregation is well described in ProCurve_Cisco.pdf document.

[Srinivasalu.r]

Thanks for reply...
can we configure PVST in cisco & Rstp in HP procurve...

what will be the impact if we configure this.