[c-nsp] FIB scale on ASR9001

[Mark Tinka]

On 11/11/21 10:26, Gert Doering wrote:

> I've been extremely underwhelmed with the quality of IOS XR documentation
> in many respects, ROV being one of them.
>
> (And ROV on IOS XE is full of different eels... as if a totally different
> company has implemented it, without ever speaking to someone who has
> done this before, or understand what it's supposed to do)

I and the usual friends you know of have been fighting with Cisco to fix 
ROV's default behaviour in IOS XE since 2015. They refuse to listen. 
Personally, I gave up.

We don't run RPKI on our CSR1000v route reflectors, so I'm not bothered.

We don't run RPKI on the few ASR1000's that are in the network, and 
those are also being replaced by the MX204.

We are also working on replacing our ASR920's with something better. We 
ran RPKI on those for all of 3 days until we turned it off. The box has 
bigger problems, like insufficient FIB, that we are already dealing with.


> We're moving towards Arista 7280R, which is not without its own set of
> surprises...

We use this box for customer Layer 2 aggregation in the data centre. 
Very happy with it.

As far as its maturity goes as an IP/MPLS box goes, I cannot tell you. 
But, knowing you, I'll keep my eyes on arista-nsp open wide open :-). 
It's an awfully quiet list - haven't got anything new on there since 
February of this year.

Mark.