[177861] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Metaswitch ax1000 as a RR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Ryce)
Sat Feb 7 08:33:09 2015
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From: Nick Ryce <nick@fluency.net.uk>
To: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 13:28:57 +0000
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We have the CSR1000v on KVM with the premium 10mbps license as a RR it is
works perfectly. We did have to play about with the nic drivers and found
that the e1000 seems to be the most stable.
N
Nick Ryce
Network Architect, Fluency Communications Ltd
T: +44 (0)845 874 7000
www.fluency.net.uk <http://www.fluency.net.uk/>
nick@fluency.net.uk
On 07/02/2015 08:18, "Mark Tinka" <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> wrote:
>
>On 5/Feb/15 22:41, David Bass wrote:
>> I have a client looking to implement x86 based route reflectors, and
>>was looking at the ax1000. I'm wondering if anyone has implemented it
>>yet, and what your experience has been?
>>
>> Any other alternatives would also be appreciated. This customer does
>>standard L3 VPNs, and VPLS services so the software has to support that.
>>=20
>
>I have spoken about our success in using Cisco's CSR1000v on ESXi on
>x86_64 hardware previously on this list.
>
>Yes, the licenses will cost you (both VMware and CSR1000v). KVM is
>supported, but I haven't tried it. Suffice it to say, Cisco seem to be
>putting most of their energy into ESXi.
>
>Mark.
>
