Re: EdgeRouter Infinity as medium-sized "IXP Peering Router"?

[Josh Reynolds <josh () kyneticwifi com>]

EdgeOS was forked and employees were poached from Vyatta before it was
purchased by Broadcom, when it was open source.  I think a few things
came down from VyOS after that, but not many.

On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 9:28 PM, Hugo Slabbert <hugo () slabnet com> wrote:
> On Mon 2017-Jul-03 19:26:17 -0500, Josh Reynolds <josh () kyneticwifi com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Jul 3, 2017 7:23 PM, "Josh Reynolds" <josh () kyneticwifi com> wrote:
> >
> > > Specs...
> > >
> > >
> > >    - MIPS64 16 Core 1.8 GHz
> > >    - 16 GB DDR4 RAM
> > >    - 8 MB NOR Flash 4 GB eMMC NAND Flash
> > >    - Data Ports: (1) RJ45 Serial Port, (8) SFP+ Ports (1) RJ45 Gigabit
> > >    Ethernet Port
> > >    - 2 hotswap power supplies
> > >
> > >
> > > No LACP. ECMP is currently broken. MPLS/VPLS is currently broken and not
> > > done in hardware - this may eventually change. As far as the other stuff,
> > > "telemetry" etc - no.
> > >
> > > As far as BGP crunching, plenty of routes, etc - it would easily and
> > > happily be fine with that.
> > >
> > > As far as automation, it's a JunOS-like CLI originally based on vyatta,
> > > which AT&T now owns - and one of the main reasons is it's scriptability,
> > > use of Ansible and other tools right on the device, python, etc.
>
>
> Technically I believe it's based on VyOS rather than Vyatta.  Same base, but
> just delineating that VyOS is open source and I don't believe AT&T wields
> any control over it.
>
> > > - Josh
>
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>
> > > On Jul 3, 2017 2:09 PM, "Job Snijders" <job () instituut net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Dear NANOG,
> > > >
> > > > Some friends of mine are operating a nonprofit (on shoe string) and
> > > > looking
> > > > to connect some CDN caches to an IX fabric. A BGP speaking device is
> > > > needed
> > > > between the caches and the BGP peers connected to the fabric. The BGP
> > > > speaker is needed to present the peers on the IX with a unified view of
> > > > the
> > > > assemblage of CDN nodes.
> > > >
> > > > I was wondering whether anyone was experience with the "EdgeRouter
> > > > Infinity
> > > > XG" device, specifically in the role of a simple peering router for a
> > > > couple of tens of thousands of routes. (I'd point default to the left
> > > > and
> > > > take just the on-net routes on the right to reduce the table size
> > > > requirement).
> > > >
> > > > I hope the device can do at least 2xLACP trunks, has a sizable FIB, is
> > > > automatable (supports idempotency), can forward IMIX at line-rate,
> > > > *flow,
> > > > and exposes some telemetry via SNMP.
> > > >
> > > > Any note sharing would be appreciated!
> > > >
> > > > Kind regards,
> > > >
> > > > Job