Arista Layer3

Thu Nov 30 19:17:50 UTC 2017

Back to this discussion! :) Arista as a viable full-table PE router. Was hoping
for better experience reports since last mention.

To make the Q bit more general, are there any PE routers yet that can handle 3-8
full feeds and use an amp and 1U or so instead of 5 and 4U? Or we're ito whitebox/
open routers still for that (bird/openbgp?) or microtiks?

/kc

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 10:45:09AM -0800, Tyler Conrad said:
  >For Enterprise/DC, it works great. For service provider, they're not 100%
  >yet. The main issue is going to be around VRFs, as there's no interaction
  >between them (at least in the code version I'm on, that may have changed
  >recently or be changing soon). They'll work great as a P-Router, but if you
  >need a PE with route leaking I'd look at another vendor.
  >
  >I use a couple pairs of 7280SRs as edge routers/border leaves. Multiple
  >full table feeds without any issue.
  >
  >On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Romeo Czumbil <Romeo.Czumbil at tierpoint.com
  >> wrote:
  >
  >> So I've been using Arista as layer2 for quite some time, and I'm pretty
  >> happy with them.
  >> Kicking the idea around to turn on some Layer3 features but I've been
  >> hearing some negative feedback.
  >> The people that I did hear negative feedback don't use Arista themselves.
  >> (they just heard....)
  >>
  >> So do we have any Arista L3 people out here that can share some negatives
  >> or positives?
  >>
  >> Use case: Just some MPLS IPv4/IPv6 routing, l2vpn OSPF/BGP
  >> Maybe 20k routes (no full internet routes)
  >> 7050 Series
  >> 7280 Series
  >>
  >> -Romeo
  >>

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