<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">I have done quite a bit of work on the vRouter 5600 v5.0R2</span></font><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Ping me offline for details, but I've managed to do:</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">- 8 x Routers (4 x vRouters, 2 x vMX, 2 x vSRX) in an MPLS P/PE Network (doing interop with the usual suspects)</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">- OSPFv2 / OSPF-TE TED Database Population</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">- RSVP-TE and EROs</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">- LDP Transport LSPs</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">- iBGP/eBGP with a handful of routes (didn't connect it to The Internets yet... next step...)</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">- Route Maps / Routing Policy (i.e. matching routes, chaining localpref, overwriting next-hops for HA eBGP connections)</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">- VRRP for server-facing stuff</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">- DHCP Relay and BNG "lite" functionality</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">- Bridge domains, S/C tag pop-pop/push-push operations</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">- S/C Tag pbit re-writing</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">- Source / P-NAT</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">- 10G DPDK Acceleration (yep, this works very well)</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Couple of hiccups, but nothing I haven't been able to work around so far. ( </span></font><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;">Suspect 5.xR3 or 5.1 will likely fix the corner-case behaviours.) </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">Have some PR/reports back into Brocade; but the vast majority "just works" and works consistently. 5.x Documentation has also been vastly improved too. </span></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">- CK.</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 10 Sep 2016, at 3:32 am, Alex Valo <<a href="mailto:alex.valo@outlook.com">alex.valo@outlook.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Dear All,</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">I am just wondering if anybody here is using Brocade vRouter 5600 in production with success? We have a project with a very small budget. The first phase will be about 200 Mbps (6 months), then 500 Mbps (6 to 12 months) and finally 3 Gbps (12 months and beyond). </div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Our design:</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">- 2 routers with iBGP/OSPF between them</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">- 4 eBGP sessions with 1 Gbps from upstreams with full view</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">- 2 eBGP sessions with 1 Gbps downstream with full view</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">- a few static route subnets</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">- filtering using regular route maps and traffic engineering using BGP communities</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">- syslog of all event</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">- sFlow/NetFlow/IPFIX on the upstreams interfaces</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Looking for some feedbacks:</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Anybody keen to share their experience on either or both of these platforms?</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Anything to be specifically aware of?</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Which hardware do you use?</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">What are you traffic level?</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Did it work? Is it bullet-proof?</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">We are currently considering both Brocade vRouter and Juniper vMX.</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>