Brocade SLX Internet Edge

Ryan Hamel Ryan.Hamel at quadranet.com
Wed Oct 31 22:42:44 UTC 2018


+1 SecureCRT in general, and don’t buy Brocade,

I was happy when I got to pull out the last Foundry.

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From: Christopher Morrow [mailto:morrowc.lists at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 3:38 PM
To: Ryan Hamel <Ryan.Hamel at quadranet.com>
Cc: lists.nanog at monmotha.net; nanog list <nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Brocade SLX Internet Edge

If you buy brocade, be sure to also by a license for securecrt so that backspace works over ssh...
also, just don't do brocade... ever.

On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 9:31 AM Ryan Hamel <Ryan.Hamel at quadranet.com<mailto:Ryan.Hamel at quadranet.com>> wrote:
140K IPv6 equates to about 560K IPv4 routes, leaving the end user with 940K IPv4, which is not a lot of ceiling space considering we're at 741K IPv4 + and 60K IPv6 (240k IPv4 equivalent) now (941K total). This will leave you with 559K. I am not sure what the OP has for peering but with trying to keep 20% of TCAM space free, and keeping up with the current rate of rise according to CIDR-report, I'd say 4 years product lifetime if the OS has excellent TCAM management.

Considering how the device looks like a switch and the SLX9850 uses Broadcom sillicon, I'm thinking it must use the Jericho chipset or some variant to get that kind of performance. In the end, your mileage may vary.

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From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org<mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org>] On Behalf Of Brandon Martin
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 3:08 PM
To: nanog at nanog.org<mailto:nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Brocade SLX Internet Edge

On 10/31/18 4:56 PM, Aaron wrote:
> It won't hold a full table. 256,000 IPv4 and 64,000 IPv6 routes.

That was changed earlier this year AFAIK.  The website was slow to get updated but has been updated now.  Current claim is 1.5M IPv4 and 140k IPv6.  You need the "advanced feature license" to get access to that.
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