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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-NZ link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I have Virtual chassis QFX5100’s running as a switching/routing core with about 80k routes (bgp in routing-instances) and no issues. MX’s are on the upstream borders and downstream BNG’s. The only issue I has was I had some MPLS psuedowire switching on them and found a few glitches.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> NANOG <nanog-bounces@nanog.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Joseph Jenkins<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 24 March 2019 9:43 AM<br><b>To:</b> nanog <nanog@nanog.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: QFX5k question<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>I have 4 QFX51xx switches in a virtual chassis and have no problems pushing that much traffic through them for several hundred servers with 10GB uplinks.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=airmailon><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>On March 23, 2019 at 12:42:52 PM, Mehmet Akcin (<a href="mailto:mehmet@akcin.net">mehmet@akcin.net</a>) wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Hey there, <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>I am trying to get my hands on some QFX5000s and I have a rather quick question.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>In the past, I often used MX + EX where MX did routing and I connected all uplinks/peering and EX, and EX did switching, i connected my servers to ex.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>in QFX, I am trying to see if I need EX or not? more importantly (besides from what juniper papers say) are there any known issues people run into for a small scale deployment. (100mbps-1gbps range 1 rack, 20 servers) <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>my plan is to have QFX to it all, but i am worried, if this is too much for QFX, if you have relative experience on this , feel free to let me know<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>thanks in advance<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>mehmet<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>