RE: L2VPN/L2transport, Cumulus Linux & hardware suggestion

[Adam Thompson <athompson () merlin mb ca>]

Good luck with tunnelling LACP, no matter what boxes you have - LACP has (de facto) hard jitter requirements of under 
1msec, or you'll be getting TCP resets coming out your ears due to mis-ordered packets.

For your requirements, although I hesitate to recommend them for enterprise/carrier use, Miktotik's EoIP protocol does 
a much better job of this than most "carrier-grade" implementations.

Otherwise, Juniper and Arista both come to mind, Juniper has the EX4650 that matches your h/w specs, and Arista has, 
oh, at least half a dozen boxes of various spec that comply, too.  Not 100% sure the Juniper EX does 25G, now that I 
think of it.

Adam Thompson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+athompson=merlin.mb.ca () nanog org> On Behalf Of
> Jürgen Jaritsch
> Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 3:15 PM
> To: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: L2VPN/L2transport, Cumulus Linux & hardware suggestion
>
> Dear folks,
>
> have anyone already tried to run VXLAN/EVPN + “Bridge Layer 2 Protocol
> Tunneling” on Cumulus Linux as an replacement for classic MPLS L2VPN/VPWS
> (“xconnect”, l2circuit, VLL) ?
>
> I need to provide transparent Ethernet P2P virtual leased lines to my
> customers and these have to support stuff like LLDP, STP, LACP, etc. The
> transport L2 network is not THAT big: max hops between VTEP is 4.
>
> Anyone have suggestions for the below hardware request?
> #) 1-3U L2/L3 box
> #) 48x SFP28 / 1/10/25G
> #) 6x QSFP28 / 100G
> #) VXLAN/EVPN with L2 tunneling support
> or
> #) MPLS VPWS/l2circuit
> #) Dual PSU
>
>
> thanks & best regards
> Jürgen