[c-nsp] XRv (eve-ng)

Aaron dudepron at gmail.com
Wed Jun 5 11:13:31 EDT 2019


Is that XRv or XRv9K?
XRv was great as it didn't require as many resources.

On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 10:28 AM Aaron Gould <aaron1 at gvtc.com> wrote:

> Have you all been able to use EVE-NG ?  My gosh, what an awesome emulator.
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> I have eve-ng running…
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> XRv
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> vMX
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> vQFX
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> (this might end up being a much larger topic)  BTW, Why does Juniper do
> what appears to be such a better job with CP/FP (control plane/forwarding
> plane) separation ?  I’m speaking about XR and Junos and also how clean
> Junos vMX seems to be done as I work with it in EVE-NG when compared to XRv.
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> XRv is still one node.
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> vMX is 2 nodes… VCP and VFP.
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> Also, in XRv I can’t add martini-type access pw’s into an l2vpn nor can I
> add routing on a BVI….. but, conversely I can do all those things in vMX
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> As nice as XR(v) is, it still seems to be playing catch-up to (v)MX.  Is
> this true in your mind ?
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> Stepping away from the eve-ng emulator for a moment, over the years of
> working with XR I was so pleased with how it improved upon classic IOS….
> But then I began working with Junos a few years ago, and wow, it seemed to
> take routing os to a whole other level than XR did… again, this could be in
> my head, but curious what others think, IF, you have actually done enough
> work on both platforms to know enough to speak to it.
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> -Aaron
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