On 11/30/17 13:00, Ken Chase wrote: > >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? this a standard sr that's moderately busy but not exactly slammed, I'm be impressed if you could triple that at full tilt.
#show environment power Power Input Output Output Supply Model Capacity Current Current Power Status ------- -------------------- --------- -------- -------- -------- ------------- 1 PWR-500AC-R 500W 0.35A 5.27A 62.8W Ok 2 PWR-500AC-R 500W 0.32A 4.81A 56.4W Ok Total -- 1000W -- -- 119.1W -- bird had memory footprint going with it as well as some local modification and we hacked addpath into it a few years ago. filtering poilcy is something we programmatically generate and interact with via agents so a traditional style monolithic config isn't that useful. > /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 > >> >> > >> > > > > > > > >
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