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 < dhubb...@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. > > > > Thanks, > > > > David >
