Re: [j-nsp] Viability of EX4300 in a primarily l3 environment?

[Yucong Sun <sunyucong () gmail com>]

it appears not, ospf + ipv4 was not mentioned here:

http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos11.4/topics/concept/ex-series-software-licenses-overview.html#jd0e135


On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Paul S. <contact () winterei se> wrote:

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't OSPF require the AFL license anyway
> to be 'legitly' ran?
>
> Price difference might be a lot smaller depending on that.
>
>
> On 8/6/2014 午後 08:30, Yucong Sun wrote:
>
> > I used ex4200 to do exactly what you did before.  ex4200 releases is
> > pretty
> > rock solid, feature extensive, although with lower arp entry limits.
> >
> > Given the price difference maybe you can connect each l2 domain to its own
> > ex4200 and have them do ospf routing among selves, which maybe give you
> > better failure tolerances compare to a single core.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Giuliano Cardozo Medalha <
> > giuliano () wztech com br> wrote:
> >
> >  we are using ex4300 with the last release available
> > > the setup is pretty simple using virtual chassis, lag, L3 and poe
> > >
> > > it works pretty fine and we do not have any serious problems
> > >
> > > sometimes the poe controller goes down but we have a case oppened in jtac
> > > to try solve it
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > >
> > >  On 06/08/2014, at 07:15, Sebastian Wiesinger <
> > > > juniper-nsp () ml karotte org>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > * Paul S. <contact () winterei se> [2014-08-02 05:18]:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi folks,
> > > > >
> > > > > We're considering the EX4300 to run routing (l3) for a few
> > > > > hypervisors of ours that are connected via l2.
> > > > >
> > > > > Primarily interested due to the rather massive arp limit (64, 000)
> > > > > on the switch, but we've been told (and searched for ourselves to
> > > > > find out) that the 4300 platform has been plagued by random issues
> > > > > since launch.
> > > > I don't have hands-on experience but I looked at the EX4300 platform
> > > > for a new deployment. If you look at the current release notes:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >  http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos13.2/
> > > information-products/topic-collections/ex-qfx-series/
> > > release-notes/ex-qfx-series-junos-release-notes-13.2X51-D25.pdf
> > >
> > > > There are a lot of (serious) bugs still getting fixed so I'm not sure
> > > > how mature this platform is. One big reason for that is probably
> > > > because EX4300 uses other chips than the rest of the 4xxx series
> > > > (Broadcom).
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > >
> > > > Sebastian
> > > >
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