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

Josh Reynolds josh at kyneticwifi.com
Fri Aug 11 15:29:39 UTC 2017


Since it's been announced now...

I have an alpha unit. It came with 1.9.8dev straight from $manufacturer. My
box still has markings from customs all over it.

Expect a new version with some minor fixes soon. A lot of firmware work
going on at the moment on various edgeOS product lines.

On Aug 11, 2017 10:03 AM, "Nick W" <nickdwhite at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1.9.7 definitely applies to Infinity:
>
> ER-8-XG:
> https://dl.ubnt.com/firmwares/edgemax/v1.9.7/ER-e1000.v1.9.
> 7+hotfix.1.5005858.tar
> (SHA256:b1a16900e3fbe1eef3876548ac7eda12a95ef849d4328f22b478459e2a506b92)
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 9:07 PM, Josh Reynolds <josh at kyneticwifi.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Forgot reply all...
>>
>> That does not apply to the infinity. Those shipped with 1.9.8dev.
>>
>>
>> On Aug 8, 2017 8:03 PM, "Mike Hammett" <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:
>>
>> > 1.9.7+hotfix.1 is the currently available stable. 1.9.1.1 was released
>> on
>> > May 1st.
>> >
>> > https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeMAX-Updates-Blog/EdgeMAX-
>> > EdgeRouter-software-security-release-v1-9-7-hotfix-1/ba-p/2019161
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > -----
>> > Mike Hammett
>> > Intelligent Computing Solutions
>> > http://www.ics-il.com
>> >
>> > Midwest-IX
>> > http://www.midwest-ix.com
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> >
>> > 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"?
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > 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 using an outdated ZebOS (1.2.0?)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.
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Job Snijders <job at instituut.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Dear NANOG,
>> > >
>> > > 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.
>> > >
>> > > 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).
>> > >
>> > > 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.
>> > >
>> > > Any note sharing would be appreciated!
>> > >
>> > > Kind regards,
>> > >
>> > > Job
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>>
>
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