[186106] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Opinions on Arista 7280?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (H I Baysal)
Fri Nov 27 10:32:52 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: H I Baysal <hibaysal@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <FCD26398C5EDE746BFC47F43EA52A17305EF22@dino.ad.hostasaurus.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 10:39:18 +0100
To: David Hubbard <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Hi,
Hardware is really nice.
Backplane, buffers, just basically =E2=80=9Cpumping=E2=80=9D bandwidth. =
It=E2=80=99s really good.
However, mlag can show some bugs when having only 1 interface in an MLAG =
(only 1 side) they had issues with the ifindex numbering in software.
There were OSPF configuration options missing, etc.
In short, hardware is really nice, software needs more maturing.=20
Nice for distribution but not for core.
> On 24 Nov 2015, at 19:02, David Hubbard =
<dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com> wrote:
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> Curious if anyone's used the 7280 and wants to share their experience?
> I'm looking at it primarily for three reasons, MLAG (i.e. =
multi-chassis
> LACP), large ARP/MAC table (256k entries) and large IPv6 neighbor =
table
> (256k entries). For the table sizes we would like out of one pair of
> switches, we'd be into the Cisco 7000 series, but that's dramatically
> more expensive and we don't need much of anything else that it offers.
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> Looked at Brocade too, but they don't have devices that can do the =
multi
> chassis LACP, has the huge table sizes and has a reasonable number of
> 10gig ports. It was possible to construct a workable solution using
> VDX's for switching and CER's for routing, but that's more complex =
than
> Arista's option if it's a usable option.
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> Thanks,
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> David
