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Re: EdgeRouter Infinity as medium-sized "IXP Peering Router"?
From: Jeremy Austin <jhaustin () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 15:10:31 -0800
On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us> wrote:
EdgeRouter is... meh. If I was looking at that class of gear I'd go with a Mikrotik.
Job, There is a bit of a price differential here, depending on whether you need SFP+; the Infinity is "dead cheap", and has fairly opaque BGP daemon+debugging tools. Also still technically a beta product. Not sure if it meets your automation requirements. I wouldn't want to be deploying them in a redundant pair, myself, but just when you say something can't be done… Mikrotik's CCR1072: 10-gig router (shipping, not anything that's just been announced) has an API, can certainly handle a few tens of thousands of routes fine (single core BGP though), but I can't vouch for its ability to do IMIX or *flow at line rate. This has probably been stress tested by somebody. I doubt the sampling is in hardware. If you don't need 10G ports then your options expand considerably. Do you have a target throughput? -- Jeremy Austin (907) 895-2311 office (907) 803-5422 cell jhaustin () gmail com Heritage NetWorks Whitestone Power & Communications Vertical Broadband, LLC
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