Re: NAT on a Trident/Qumran(/or other?) equipped whitebox?

[Jason Lixfeld <jason+nanog () lixfeld ca>]

Indeed, however there are some other features currently missing from the Arista stack that sort of take it off the 
table (granted, those features have been promised early-ish next year).

> On Oct 9, 2018, at 11:52 AM, Edward Dore <edward.dore () freethought-internet co uk> wrote:
>
> Not sure if you count Arista as whitebox given their use of merchant silicon but running their own NOS, however they 
> were touting the 7170 series as being able to do NAT recently. That's a Barefoot Tofino chip under the hood.
>
> I've no idea how well it can do NAT or what the limitations are mind you, but it was a specific selling point that 
> they were pushing ...
>
> Edward Dore 
> Freethought Internet
>
> On 09/10/2018, 16:38, "NANOG on behalf of Jason Lixfeld" <nanog-bounces () nanog org on behalf of jason+nanog () 
> lixfeld ca> wrote:
>
>    Has anyone played around with this?  Curious if the BCM (or whatever other chip) can do this, and if not, if any 
> of the box vendors have tried to find a way to get these things to do a bunch of NAT - say some flavour of NAT, 
> line-rate @ 10G.  If so, anyone know of a NOS that has support for it?  OcNOS, Cumulus Linux, PicOS and Switch Light 
> OS seem to have none, but not sure if there are others out there.
>
>    Thanks!