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

Fri Aug 11 15:03:09 UTC 2017

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 using an outdated ZebOS (1.2.0?)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
> > >
> >
> >
>