EdgeRouter Infinity as medium-sized "IXP Peering Router"?

Wed Aug 9 13:27:22 UTC 2017

When I lasted checked in with Ubiquiti on these issues for that and the
ER-Pros - they told me that everything was to be resolved in 2.0....

We shall see...

On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 9:20 PM, Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:

> Ah, okay. I haven't used one yet.
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> Also, I don't talk about beta outside of beta. ;-)
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: "Josh Reynolds" <josh at kyneticwifi.com>
> To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog at ics-il.net>
> Cc: "NANOG" <nanog at nanog.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2017 8:07:36 PM
> Subject: Re: EdgeRouter Infinity as medium-sized "IXP Peering Router"?
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> Forgot reply all...
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> That does not apply to the infinity. Those shipped with 1.9.8dev.
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> On Aug 8, 2017 8:03 PM, "Mike Hammett" < nanog at ics-il.net > wrote:
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> 1.9.7+hotfix.1 is the currently available stable. 1.9.1.1 was released on
> May 1st.
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> https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeMAX-Updates-Blog/EdgeMAX-
> EdgeRouter-software-security-release-v1-9-7-hotfix-1/ba-p/2019161
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> Midwest-IX
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: "Nick W" < nickdwhite at gmail.com >
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 10:55:28 PM
> Subject: Re: EdgeRouter Infinity as medium-sized "IXP Peering Router"?
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> Tried the Infinity, unsuccessfully. Several of them. Ended up pulling them
> all, sitting in my homelab for now. Multiple full tables, nothing fancy for
> firewall or QOS, but ran into issues with random ribd/bgpd crashes and
> kernel panics. I've submitted a lot of logs and core dumps to UBNT. I would
> personally stay away from them until they are out of beta, and possibly
> even another 6-12 months after that.
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> The current stable EdgeMax version (1.9.1.1) is relatively stable, but
> using an outdated ZebOS (1.2.0?) with a number of issues (MPLS, OSPF, BGP)
> - nothing too major, but can be annoying. Probably okay for what you
> described. Depending on how much throughput you need, an ERPro, or Mikrotik
> would probably be fine. If you need 10G, load up VyOS on some cheap servers
> with an Intel or Solarflare card... probably cheaper than a beta Infinity
> or Mikrotik.
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> On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Job Snijders < job at instituut.net > wrote:
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> > Dear NANOG,
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> > Some friends of mine are operating a nonprofit (on shoe string) and
> looking
> > to connect some CDN caches to an IX fabric. A BGP speaking device is
> needed
> > between the caches and the BGP peers connected to the fabric. The BGP
> > speaker is needed to present the peers on the IX with a unified view of
> the
> > assemblage of CDN nodes.
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> > I was wondering whether anyone was experience with the "EdgeRouter
> Infinity
> > XG" device, specifically in the role of a simple peering router for a
> > couple of tens of thousands of routes. (I'd point default to the left and
> > take just the on-net routes on the right to reduce the table size
> > requirement).
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> > I hope the device can do at least 2xLACP trunks, has a sizable FIB, is
> > automatable (supports idempotency), can forward IMIX at line-rate, *flow,
> > and exposes some telemetry via SNMP.
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> > Any note sharing would be appreciated!
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> > Kind regards,
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> > Job
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