<div dir="ltr">I think Brocade markets the CES for mainly layer 2 features such as carrier/metro ethernet, PBB, etc. The CER lacks some of the layer 2 features offered by the CES.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Nick Hilliard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick@foobar.org" target="_blank">nick@foobar.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 11/05/2013 23:05, Matt Kassawara wrote:<br>
> I believe you need the CER to do both BGP and MPLS.<br>
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</div>The CES and CER are the same hardware except for FIB size.<br>
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There was a conscious decision to structure the licensing so that you can't<br>
run mpls + bgp.<br>
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This means that these boxes are basically useless for mpls PE service<br>
because among other things they don't support layer 3 vpns properly.<br>
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I am speechless. This feature cripple is so beyond rational comprehension<br>
that I have no idea what to say other than wtf.<br>
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Nick<br>
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