[152669] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Force10 E Series at the edge?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vinny_Abello@Dell.com)
Mon May 7 18:46:47 2012
From: <Vinny_Abello@Dell.com>
To: <jrhett@netconsonance.com>, <joelja@bogus.com>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 22:46:00 +0000
In-Reply-To: <B4F925B1-F550-4003-922B-8590F49574B2@netconsonance.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
FYI: The E300 is the TeraScale series. If you're looking at used, be sure t=
o get dual-cam cards or else you'll top out at 256k routes. Dual-cam should=
give you 512K/32K (v4/v6). Next step up would be the E600i with EJ RPM(s) =
which is the ExaScale series and supports up to 688k/128k (v4/v6) routes (E=
H RPM's still being the Terascale platform so definitely look for EJ's if c=
onsidering the E600i). 300Mbps is nothing for the E300. Even 300Gbps is sti=
ll within spec. It's rated for switching up to 400 Gbps and forwarding capa=
city of 196 Mpps.
This might be of use to you:
http://i.dell.com/sites/content/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/Del=
l_Force10_Product_Quick_Reference_Guide.pdf
Although I don't work in the Force10 group (I do work for Dell), if you hav=
e any questions I can likely track down the right contacts to help you. Con=
tact me off list. I've been learning the product line myself and playing wi=
th an E600i in just the past few months coming from familiarity with Cisco =
and Brocade. If you haven't used Force10 and FTOS before but are familiar w=
ith Cisco IOS, you'll pick it up fast.
-Vinny
-----Original Message-----
From: Jo Rhett [mailto:jrhett@netconsonance.com]=20
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 5:17 PM
To: Joel jaeggli
Cc: NANOG
Subject: Re: Force10 E Series at the edge?
On Mar 28, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Joel jaeggli wrote:
> On 3/27/12 23:21 , Roberts, Brent wrote:
>> Is anyone running an E300 Series Chassis at the internet edge with multi=
ple Full BGP feeds? 95th percent would be about 300 meg of traffic. BGP=20
> Doesn't support URPF which makes it unsuitable for RTBH and therefore
I was just about to pipe up and say "they do it fine!" and then I remembere=
d that we built automatic filtering provisioning so that each edge customer=
got filters applied automatically based on their static assignments from u=
s, or from IRR tables if a checkbox was marked. The boxes handled 1000x por=
ts with ~6 filters per port no problem, but yeah, real uRPF would be nice.
--=20
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet proje=
cts.
