On 19.04.2009 01:38 Randy Bush wrote >>> just curious. has anyone tried arista for smallish exchanges, before >>> jumping off the cliff into debugging extreme, foundry, ... >> last time I look at them their products lacked port security or >> anything similiar. > > whoops! > >> Iirc it's on the roadmap for thier next generation of switches. > > bummer, as performance and per-port cost are certainly tasty. >
Indeed ... Afaik low latency is due to the fact that Arista boxes are doing cut through. Pricewise they are very attractive. And Arista EOS actually is more or less a full blown Linux which allows you to do _really_ tricky things. Arnold -- Arnold Nipper / nIPper consulting, Sandhausen, Germany email: arn...@nipper.de phone: +49 6224 9259 299 mobile: +49 172 2650958 fax: +49 6224 9259 333
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