[External] More product suggestions: small/cheap IS-IS or VXLAN devices?

Wed Feb 23 07:41:17 UTC 2022

On 2/23/22 09:04, Hunter Fuller via NANOG wrote:

> Two that immediately come to mind are:
>
>  - If you don't need anything dynamic, you can run VXLAN on any Linux 
> box. So just a random server would work.
> https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2017-vxlan-linux

IS-IS support in Quagga and FRR is still spotty.

I will be testing FRR 8.1 (on FreeBSD) soon to see if previous issues 
have since been resolved.

>  - RouterOS v7 added VXLAN, so now you can do that in a MikroTik box, 
> or in a Cloud-Hosted Router (their VM).
> https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/VXLAN
>
> Hard to beat the price point on either.

AFAIK, Mikrotik do not support IS-IS.

Mark.