https://a996c8ee.aww-3cz.pages.dev/tags/nortel/ Recent content in Nortel on Aaron's Worthless Words Hugo en Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://a996c8ee.aww-3cz.pages.dev/posts/2007/08/mixed-platform-lans-and-spanning-tree/ Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://a996c8ee.aww-3cz.pages.dev/posts/2007/08/mixed-platform-lans-and-spanning-tree/ <p>We just an HP C-class blade chassis which included two GbE2c network modules.  These modules are Nortel switches running AlteonOS that connect the blades to the rest of your network.  When I turned these guys up the other day, every VLAN stopped working, so I ran down to the data center and unplugged the uplink.  I called HP and soon found out that the GbE2c doesn&rsquo;t play nice with Cisco switches out-of-the-box.  Since we have a Cisco network (not now, I guess), we can into some problems.</p>