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Re: EdgeRouter Infinity as medium-sized "IXP Peering Router"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Austin)
Mon Jul 3 19:10:58 2017
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From: Jeremy Austin <jhaustin@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 15:10:31 -0800
To: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us> wrote:
>
> EdgeRouter is... meh. If I was looking at that class of gear I'd go with =
a
> Mikrotik.
Job,
There is a bit of a price differential here, depending on whether you need
SFP+; the Infinity is "dead cheap", and has fairly opaque BGP
daemon+debugging tools. Also still technically a beta product. Not sure if
it meets your automation requirements. I wouldn't want to be deploying them
in a redundant pair, myself, but just when you say something can't be done=
=E2=80=A6
Mikrotik's CCR1072: 10-gig router (shipping, not anything that's just been
announced) has an API, can certainly handle a few tens of thousands of
routes fine (single core BGP though), but I can't vouch for its ability to
do IMIX or *flow at line rate. This has probably been stress tested by
somebody. I doubt the sampling is in hardware.
If you don't need 10G ports then your options expand considerably. Do you
have a target throughput?
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Jeremy Austin
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