Hello Mike, Le 20/08/2017 à 17:45, Mike Hammett a écrit : > Looking at cost effective options brings us to whitebox switches. Obviously > there's a wide range of hardware vendors and there are a few OSes available > as well. Cumulus seems to be the market leader, while IPinFusion seems to be > the most feature-rich.
You may want to take a look at this paper before choosing your NOS : https://hal-univ-tlse3.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01276379v1 This described an OpenFlow SDN approach to dumb-down whitebox switches as to fully avoid broadcast traffic, while performing as well as a complex VPLS fabric. This design is operating consistently on the Toulouse Internet Exchange since 2015 using Pica8's gear. So maybe a CLI and feature-full NOS will better suit your needs, but for an IXP, the programmatic approach has demonstrated to be working just fine. Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 (0)6 19 31 27 14
