Re: Layer 2 vs. Layer 3 to TOR

[Shane Ronan <sronan () fattoc com>]

Disagree, the EX is a very capable L3 router for LANs.


On Nov 13, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Cord MacLeod wrote:

> On Nov 13, 2009, at 4:14 AM, Matthew Walster wrote:
>
> > 2009/11/12 David Coulson <david () davidcoulson net>
> >
> > > You could route /32s within your L3 environment, or maybe even leverage
> > > something like VPLS - Not sure of any TOR-level switches that MPLS
> > > pseudowire a port into a VPLS cloud though.
> >
> > Just to let you know - the Juniper EX4200 series only support a single label
> > stack, and RSVP not LDP - plus they have a restricted BGP table size, so
> > VPLS is out of the question.
>
> If you wanted something to do this, it's called an MX series.  The ex is a switch... l3, but still a switch.