Re: Opinions on Arista for BGP?

[jim deleskie <deleskie () gmail com>]

I did an eval for some folks last Aug on Arista and 2 other vendors, one of
the others decided they didn't want to play the 3rd did.

Of the 3 Arista performed better/best.  The test plan was shared with all 3
vendors prior to testing and it definitely push all this to and then past
their published limits.  Arista was the only one in 2 days I didn't break.
Use case big fast simple L3 BGP router.

-jim

On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 10:11 AM David Hubbard <
dhubbard () dino hostasaurus com> wrote:

> Hi all, would love to get any current opinions (on or off list) on the
> stability of Arista’s BGP implementation these days.  Been many years since
> I last looked into it and wasn’t ready for a change yet.  Past many years
> have been IOS XR on NCS5500 platform and Arista everywhere but the edge.
> I’ve been really happy with them in the other roles, so am thinking about
> edge now.  I do like and use XR’s RPL, and prefix/as/community/object sets,
> but we can live without via our own config management if there aren’t easy
> equivalents.  No fancy needs at all, just small web server networks, so
> just need reliable eBGP and internal OSPF/OSPFv3.
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> Thanks,
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> David