[160740] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: switch 10G standalone TOR, core to DC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew McConachie)
Tue Feb 12 07:09:48 2013
In-Reply-To: <51139646.3030105@foobar.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:09:36 +0100
From: Andrew McConachie <smutt@depht.com>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> On 29/01/2013 11:58, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> > None of them will do trill. The Extreme X670 and Juniper EX4550 will
> both
> > do VPLS, though. The X670 won't do BGP.
>
> this is incorrect: the ex4550 will do l2vpn/l3vpn but not vpls. The X480
> does vpls, but not the X670.
>
> Nick
>
>
I normally just lurk but I thought I would post to clear up the confusion.
Full disclosure, I am an Extreme Networks TAC engineer.
The x450 does not support any VPLS/H-VPLS/MPLS and is discontinued. It was
replaced with the x460 which does support VPLS/H-VPLS/VPWS. The x480 and
x670 both support VPLS/H-VPLS/VPWS.
The x460, x480 and x670 all support BGP. However, only the x480 can hold
the BGP full-view in hardware. So while you can run BGP on the x460 or
x670 they are really only suitable for iBGP.
All switches require a Core license to run BGP and an MPLS license to run
VPLS/H-VPLS/VPWS.
Andrew
