[F10-nsp] Force10 E300 Terascale question

[Sameer Khosla]

I used to run E300's and E600's with EF generation RPM's and LC's as my edge with the ipv4-320k cam profile and they worked perfectly, each taking about 4-5 full tables until we broke 320k routes in the fib.  Since then, they have been relegated to non-full table distribution layer routers.

If you have EG cards, then you can use the 512k cam profile, but who knows how long that will last.  Typically these days I have a number of customers who will pick them up off ebay and use them as an edge where they take on-net prefixes and defaults from myself or their other providers.

They also have no problem running with multiple OSPF neighbors in multiple areas:

#sho ip ospf neighbor

Neighbor ID    Pri      State        Dead Time Address        Interface Area
xxx.xxx.xxx.22    1       FULL/DR      00:00:34 xxx.xxx.xxx.66    Po 30     2
xxx.xxx.xxx.21    1       FULL/DR      00:00:31 xxx.xxx.xxx.2     Po 20     5
xxx.xxx.xxx.5     128     FULL/DR      00:00:37 xxx.xxx.xxx.42    Po 2      0
xxx.xxx.xxx.3     1       FULL/DR      00:00:36 xxx.xxx.xxx.58    Vl 13     3
xxx.xxx.xxx.8     1       FULL/DR      00:00:36 xxx.xxx.xxx.86    Gi 3/29   1
xxx.xxx.xxx.9     1       FULL/DR      00:00:30 xxx.xxx.xxx.90    Gi 3/30   1
xxx.xxx.xxx.4     128     FULL/DR      00:00:33 xxx.xxx.xxx.117   Po 1      0
xxx.xxx.xxx.11    1       FULL/BDR     00:00:34 xxx.xxx.xxx.58    Po 19     1
xxx.xxx.xxx.10    1       FULL/BDR     00:00:28 xxx.xxx.xxx.130   Po 18     1



Thanks

Sameer Khosla
Managing Director
Neutral Data Centers Corp.
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From: force10-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:force10-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Ryan Goddard
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 8:56 AM
To: force10-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: [F10-nsp] Force10 E300 Terascale question

Anybody using Dell/Force 10 E300 Terascale on the edge?
Looking for anyone with actual experience placing one of these in a service provider environment, full BGP tables from provider running iBGP to a mirrored setup to different provider (Dual home to different ISP topology).
Also with E300 running OSPF on the inside to multiple areas.
Appreciate any info.
thanks
-Ryan

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