[c-nsp] Recommendation for Cisco router with Full BGP Route

[Brian Turnbow]

Hi,

Search for a day in the life of a packer for the 7280r3 , it has good
detail about the various flavours
r3 is based on jericho2 and brings more features and performance with
respect to r2

Brian

Brian Turnbow
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Il giorno mer 5 mar 2025 alle ore 15:07 Pengembara T. via cisco-nsp
<cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net> ha scritto:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the at hands on experience .
>
> Interested at 7280cr2k. But based on thi, its no longer listed
>
> Looks like its already replaced with something else.
>
>
> https://www.arista.com/en/products/platforms
>
>
> Im still did not understand arista model naming convention.
>
> What about 7280SR3-40YC6 ? Is the control plane able to handle
>
> The closest thing with CR2K is 7280CR3-32P4.
>
> 7280sr3 did not mention bgp table, but mention these:
> Cloud Networking Ready
> • Up to 384K MAC Addresses
> • Over 2M IPv4 Unicast Routes
> • Over 5M IPv4 Routes with 7280R3K
> • Algorithmic ACLs for 100K+ rules
>
> Routing table is ok, but bgp table im not sure.
>
> Thx.
>
> On Wednesday, March 5, 2025, Drew Weaver <drew.weaver at thenap.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have both ASR 9902 and Arista DCS-7280CR2K-30
> >
> > Downsides of the ASR9902 for us include:
> >
> > Not being able to configure the ports in the exact way we need to as far
> > as the integrated switch.
> > Internet Licensing
> > Had a really hard time trying to renew support for less than 40% of the
> > cost of the entire router for 1 year. I feel like something went terribly
> > wrong here but I wasted 6 months trying to fix it.
> > Very expensive for what amounts to a 8x100GE router
> >
> > Upsides:
> >
> > If you like IOS XR
> > If you like netflow and not sflow
> > It's made by Cisco (... I guess that is still an upside)
> > I don't believe the 9902 uses a proprietary algo to achieve its maximum
> > route scale.
> >
> > Downsides of the Arista DCS-7280CR2K-30
> >
> > Sflow only
> > The OS doesn't seem to know whether or not it has written files to the
> > filesystem when you save a running config or copy a new software image.
> > The OS doesn't seem to track whether the disk is still working or not.
> > I'm not 100% sure I trust flexroute yet for large tables above 1M routes
> > but fingers are crossed.
> > if you want flexroute you have to make sure you get the K model
> > If you don't like EOS
> >
> > Upsides:
> >
> > 30 ports of 100GE that can break out however we want
> > If you like EOS
> > As far as I know there is no phone home or licensing restrictions
> > I'm not sure on current pricing but these weren’t as expensive as an
> > ASR9902 and you get 22 extra ports.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Drew
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cisco-nsp <cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net> On Behalf Of
> > Pengembara T. via cisco-nsp
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2025 1:26 AM
> > To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> > Subject: [c-nsp] Recommendation for Cisco router with Full BGP Route
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am looking for recommendations on a Cisco model that meets the following
> > requirements:
> >
> > - Supports 4 BGP peers (both eBGP and iBGP), each with a full BGP table
> > for IPv4 and IPv6
> > - Smallest possible physical size (2U max if possible)
> > - Prefer perpetual license
> > - Relatively stable CPU usage, preferably ≤50% for most of the time while
> > handling this BGP load
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
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