Re: Arista Layer3

["Kaiser, Erich" <erich () gotfusion net>]

It would be worth your time to look at Extreme SLX9640 with advanced
routing license.



On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 4:47 PM Roel Parijs <roel.parijs () gmail com> wrote:

> We have been using the 7280SR-48C6 for 2.5 years now. Just after Arista
> announced the full table BGP routing.
> Looking at the price / port there is nothing near Arista. We also use
> Cisco ASR1K and Juniper MX204 but these have far less capacity.
>
> When we first started, there were quite a few features missing but over
> the past 2 year they have really been catching up. I was very happy when
> they added MSS clamping at the end of last year.
>
> The new version 7280R2K should be able to handle 2M routes.
>
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 9:31 PM <nanog () jack fr eu org> wrote:
>
> > Check out the 7280sr2k, which is actually 24*10G, 24*25G, 6*100G
> >
> > On 03/05/2019 08:55 PM, David Hubbard wrote:
> > > I love the NCS5501, but once Arista gets the 2M-route capacity down
> > into the 48x10g format, I'd jump ship in a heartbeat; currently you have to
> > do a much larger chassis-based device or their 100gig 7280 to have that
> > route scale.  My big gripes with the 5501 are that, due to its
> > architecture, if you want to do uRPF, you chop your route scale in half,
> > even on the 5501-SE.  5501 also has no supported configuration where you
> > have both first hop redundancy and physical path redundancy, because you
> > can't do both VRRP (its only redundant first hop option) and BVI's, can't
> > do MC-LAG, can't do vPC, so you need switches in addition to the 5501's if
> > that's the goal..
> > > David