RE: Thousands of hosts on a gigabit LAN, maybe not

If you need that kind of density, I recommend a Clos fabric. Arista, Juniper, Brocade, Big Switch BCF and Cisco all have solutions that would allow you to build a high-density leaf/spine. You can build the Cisco solution with NXOS or ACI, depending which models you choose. The prices on these so

RE: Thousands of hosts on a gigabit LAN, maybe not

Also, do you need line rate forwarding? Having 1,000 devices with 1Gb uplinks doesn't necessarily mean that full throughput is required... the clustering and the applications may be sporadic and bursty? It's definitely sporadic and bursty. There's another network for high speed traffic among

Re: Thousands of hosts on a gigabit LAN, maybe not

On 10/05/2015 00:33, Karl Auer wrote: > Would be interesting to see how IPv6 performed, since is one of the > things it was supposed to be able to deliver - massively scalable links > (equivalent to an IPv4 broadcast domain) via massively reduced protocol > chatter (IPv6 multicast groups vs IPv4 br

Re: Updated prefix filtering

Hello Dave, On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 1:49 AM, Dave Taht wrote: > I have had a piece long on the spike on how we implemented bcp38 for > linux (openwrt) devices using the ipset facility. > > We had a different use case (preventing all possible internal rfc1918 > network addresses from escaping, whi

Re: Updated prefix filtering

In message , Dave Taht writes: > On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Chaim Rieger wrote= > : > > > > Best example I=E2=80=99ve found is located at http://jonsblog.lewis.org/= > > > > > I too ran out of space, Brocade, not Cisco though, and am looking to filt= > er pref