>Arista DCS-7280SRA-48C6 is a 1ru box.?? > >Has a nominally million route fib, Jericho+ 8GB of packet buffer. >control-plane is 8GB of ram andAMD GX-424CC SOC which is 4 core 2.4ghz. >We do direct fib injection with bird rather than the arista bgpd but the >control-plane is capable of managing quite a few bgp sessions. > >the 1/2ru 7280CR2K-30 and 60 are 2m route fib boxes with still heftier >control planes but they're a different class of box being all 100G and >requiring multi-chip/internal fabrics.
Sounds pretty good - hows your power draw on that thing? Why'd you pick Bird in this case? /kc >> /kc >> >> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 10:45:09AM -0800, Tyler Conrad said: >> >For Enterprise/DC, it works great. For service provider, they're not 100% >> >yet. The main issue is going to be around VRFs, as there's no interaction >> >between them (at least in the code version I'm on, that may have changed >> >recently or be changing soon). They'll work great as a P-Router, but if you >> >need a PE with route leaking I'd look at another vendor. >> > >> >I use a couple pairs of 7280SRs as edge routers/border leaves. Multiple >> >full table feeds without any issue. >> > >> >On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Romeo Czumbil <romeo.czum...@tierpoint.com >> >> wrote: >> > >> >> So I've been using Arista as layer2 for quite some time, and I'm pretty >> >> happy with them. >> >> Kicking the idea around to turn on some Layer3 features but I've been >> >> hearing some negative feedback. >> >> The people that I did hear negative feedback don't use Arista themselves. >> >> (they just heard....) >> >> >> >> So do we have any Arista L3 people out here that can share some negatives >> >> or positives? >> >> >> >> Use case: Just some MPLS IPv4/IPv6 routing, l2vpn OSPF/BGP >> >> Maybe 20k routes (no full internet routes) >> >> 7050 Series >> >> 7280 Series >> >> >> >> -Romeo >> >> >> > >
