[c-nsp] Rec for full-table multi-peer bgp router?

[Jared Mauch]

> On Dec 5, 2016, at 2:46 PM, Raphael Mazelier <raph at futomaki.net> wrote:
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> Very interesting.
> 
> 7280SR look perfect for us. (if the price is OK; I will call my local Arista representative).
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> We are another content AS and we push 150gps approx in peak.
> We plan to upgrade from our current routers to something with a lower TCO by port (which is our currently limiting factor).
> 
> We do need full view in RIB as we target only 5/6 ASes for 99% of our traffic, so we are not concerned by the RIB size.
> 
> So do you recommended them ? or another model from Arista ?
> What kind of bug did you encounter or discover ? are the platform enough stable for using them in production without any action ? (we are a really small team, and we have no to time to spend in the network side, unfortunately).

Be mindful of how you do your control plane filtering and testing on such a device.  Many people forget about this until you are on the wrong-side of a three digit (in gigabits) attack pointed at a link-ip address.  Some devices handle it well, others poorly.

- Jared