Re: [f-nsp] Brocade vRouter 5600

Chris Kawchuk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.nsp.foundry
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I have done quite a bit of work on the vRouter 5600 v5.0R2

Ping me offline for details, but I've managed to do:

- 8 x Routers (4 x vRouters, 2 x vMX, 2 x vSRX) in an MPLS P/PE Network (doing interop with the usual suspects)
- OSPFv2 / OSPF-TE TED Database Population
- RSVP-TE and EROs
- LDP Transport LSPs
- iBGP/eBGP with a handful of routes (didn't connect it to The Internets yet... next step...)
- Route Maps / Routing Policy (i.e. matching routes, chaining localpref, overwriting next-hops for HA eBGP connections)
- VRRP for server-facing stuff
- DHCP Relay and BNG "lite" functionality
- Bridge domains, S/C tag pop-pop/push-push operations
- S/C Tag pbit re-writing
- Source / P-NAT
- 10G DPDK Acceleration (yep, this works very well)

Couple of hiccups, but nothing I haven't been able to work around so far. ( Suspect 5.xR3 or 5.1 will likely fix the corner-case behaviours.) Have some PR/reports back into Brocade; but the vast majority "just works" and works consistently. 5.x Documentation has also been vastly improved too. 

- CK.




On 10 Sep 2016, at 3:32 am, Alex Valo <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> I am just wondering if anybody here is using Brocade vRouter 5600 in production with success? We have a project with a very small budget. The first phase will be about 200 Mbps (6 months), then 500 Mbps (6 to 12 months) and finally 3 Gbps (12 months and beyond). 
> 
> Our design:
> 
> - 2 routers with iBGP/OSPF between them
> - 4 eBGP sessions with 1 Gbps from upstreams with full view
> - 2 eBGP sessions with 1 Gbps downstream with full view
> - a few static route subnets
> - filtering using regular route maps and traffic engineering using BGP communities
> - syslog of all event
> - sFlow/NetFlow/IPFIX on the upstreams interfaces
> 
> Looking for some feedbacks:
> 
> Anybody keen to share their experience on either or both of these platforms?
> Anything to be specifically aware of?
> Which hardware do you use?
> What are you traffic level?
> Did it work? Is it bullet-proof?
> 
> We are currently considering both Brocade vRouter and Juniper vMX.
>

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