[f-nsp] Brocade vRouter 5600

[Chris Kawchuk]

Couple of things I will also mention:

- vRouter boots up a *LOT* faster than vMX/vSRX
	....So the time from spin-up to forwarding packets is the quickest I've seen vs other VNFs (i.e. CSR vASR1000, vMX etc.)

- vMX doesn't do a lot of the MPC/DPC "service blade" (MS-MPC) functionality 
	basically non-feature parity w/vRouter w/things like IPSEC, EoGRE, NAT etc. You'd have to use vSRX for those; and the caveats/lack of features it brings. (i.e. no EoGRE, stateful flows, etc.)

- I've always had issues with vlan and pop/swap operations on vMX
	 (which actually i think is more of a vSwitch problem than anything when under ESXi). 
	KVM seems Ok tho.

- VxLAN is broken still under 15.1F5 under vMX. 
	The IP addressing is little-endian when it hits there wire.
	 i.e. IP address 1.0.0.2 of a VTEP goes "out on the wire" as source IP "2.0.0.1". 
	Fun eh? Took me days to find that one ( a PCAP revealed all.)

I do Like vMX a lot (what I'm used to), but the more I play with vRouter, the more I'm impressed by it.

- CK.


On 10 Sep 2016, at 3:32 am, Alex Valo <alex.valo at outlook.com> wrote:

> 
> Anybody keen to share their experience on either or both of these platforms?
> Anything to be specifically aware of?
> Which hardware do you use?
> What are you traffic level?
> Did it work? Is it bullet-proof?
> 
> We are currently considering both Brocade vRouter and Juniper vMX.

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