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RE: Any experience with Broadcom ICOS out there?


From: Edwin Pers <EPers () ansencorp com>
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 08:37:07 +0000

I've got a few older quanta switches still around, they're running a fairly old version of Broadcom's Fastpath software 
on top of vxworks 5.x. 
Fastpath runs ospf and ospfv3 just fine, exports sflow, makes the hardware do everything you'd expect a l3 switch to 
do. The CLI is kinda quirky, but it works.
I'm not sure how much they've changed since then, but from what I understand the software is mainly just a reference 
spec to go along with the reference hardware designs you can get from Broadcom. Then the company 
designing/manufacturing the actual switch could/would build something on top that, tailored to any customizations 
beyond the ref design they added.
Haven't had any problems with them, although the documentation Quanta provided was almost useless - par for the course 
with them from what I've heard..

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From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Bryan Holloway
Sent: Friday, January 5, 2018 4:47 PM
To: joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>; NANOG list <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: Re: Any experience with Broadcom ICOS out there?

Thank you everyone for the responses so far; I should probably re-phrase the question at this point ...

Has anyone had production experience with Broadcom ICOS and the features it claims to support? Positive or negative?

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