[f-nsp] Is there much to recommend an MLX?

[Ben Steele]

To all the people running XMR/MLX's have you had much Cisco exposure?
Particularly with the 6500/7600's, i'm a pretty Cisco centric person and
have spent most of my life using Cisco equipment and am very comfortable
with it, I do however use foundry's for slb's (serverirons) and have found
them quite reliable and intuitive(I won't ask where they got their CLI
structure ideas from J ), my question is how do you find it compared to the
Cisco products(features/support/performance etc)? From what someone told me
I gather the XMR/MLX is more of a router than a layer3 switch (like the
6500/7600) and hence the features are really only bound by the software
rather than being bound by your linecards capability, the BigIron(RX) is
more the comparison to the 6500/7600, is this right?

 

Essentially what i'm after is just someone who has had good exposure to both
vendors and can give me an honest non biased opinion on what they like and
dislike about the XMR/MLX's compared to the Cisco offerings.

 

Cheers

 

Ben

 

From: foundry-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:foundry-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jason Evans
Sent: Friday, 5 December 2008 1:30 AM
To: Dan Pinkard
Cc: foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] Is there much to recommend an MLX?

 

We have 8 in XMR's in production at this point, some running hundreds of BGP
sessions, and our pain has been minimal. There was a pretty bad software bug
that caused us to send full tables to peers so we were tripping
max-prefixes, but it was addressed. I think we've had 1 line card fail in
the past 6 months, so not bad. 

I would definitely recommend the XMR for its price/performance point.
However, be very careful with what you try to do with a SuperX :-). Don't
mix SuperX with BGP if you can help it. 

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Dan Pinkard <DPinkard at accessline.com> wrote:


Time and time again I've gotten anecdotal recommendations that Foundry
should only be used for layer 2. I would like to open that up to a wider
audience with a perhaps more directed question:

What is there about the MLX platform that helps it compare to the available
offerings from Juniper/Cisco/etc? Why did you end up with that gear other
than just price? With the same options available, would you buy it again?

(Please avoid the flamable aspects of that conversation)
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