Hello,<br><br><div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Swen Wulf wrote:<br>
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I would be interested if anybody out here is using an Extreme Networks
box in an ISP environment and is using BGP with multiple peers. I
wonder how the argument goes with Cisco customers/peers and any other
issues that one might run into it.<br>
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</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Not really had problems, as long as it stays up no one really cares.</div><div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Last I checked there was only one Extreme platform that could handle
multiple full feeds, and that is the BD6800 with the MSM3, but then you
get all the forwarding quirks of that platform, not recommended for new
deployment.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>The BD6800 can do bgp but would
you really want to ? I had a 12K with a 6R running full table lots of
peers. multiple full tables. About a gig of traffic no problems. I had
1 bug because I was running a pre production 6R. It was found an fixed
in a timely manner. You need to remember to enable route compression.
Avoid having a default route in a full table as it degrades the
compression significantly. (but even with a default it will give you
many years of capacity) </div>
<div> </div><div>uRPF is supported in 12.1 on the 12k/10k. </div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I gave this feedback (no new platform being able to handle full routing
table) to the product people a couple of years ago, so they know about
it but I guess not enough Extreme customers use it for full BGP routing
for this to be a priority.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Well the 12k does do it. The 6R is pretty much a specific upgrade for those that want to run full tables. Pricing when I last went shopping was significantly lower than the NetIrons and 7600s.<br>
The only big problem with going BGP on the extreme kit is that it's not cisco so hiring in a new tech/consultant is expensive as you need to get someone that knows bgp not someone who passed a cisco boot camp.<br></div>
<div><br>For what it's worth a friend of mine tried to implement a large layer 2 ring network with force 10 and had no end of problems. To the point that Force10 agreed to rma the whole order (A lot of switches went back)<br>
<br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Pete <br></div><br>