Force10 E Series at the edge?

Mon May 7 22:39:11 UTC 2012

On 5/7/12 21:17 , Jo Rhett wrote:
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> On Mar 28, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Joel jaeggli wrote:
>> On 3/27/12 23:21 , Roberts, Brent wrote:
>>> Is anyone running an E300 Series Chassis at the internet edge with
>>> multiple Full BGP feeds? 95th percent would be about 300 meg of
>>> traffic. BGP 
>> Doesn't support URPF which makes it unsuitable for RTBH and therefore
> 
> I was just about to pipe up and say "they do it fine!" and then I
> remembered that we built automatic filtering provisioning so that each
> edge customer got filters applied automatically based on their static
> assignments from us, or from IRR tables if a checkbox was marked. The
> boxes handled 1000x ports with ~6 filters per port no problem, but yeah,
> real uRPF would be nice.

Yeah, there's enough CAM on EJ linecards for the resultant rules either
way but I know what I'd prefer.

I do use and am reasonably happy with exascale, just not in that role.

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